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Las Vegas gunman shot security guard a full six minutes before opening fire
LA Times ^ | October 9, 2017 | Matt Pearce et al

Posted on 10/09/2017 7:13:31 PM PDT by ALASKA

Police have dramatically changed their account of how the Las Vegas massacre began on Oct. 1, revealing Monday that the gunman shot a hotel security guard six minutes before opening fire on a country music concert — raising new questions about why police weren’t able to pinpoint the gunman’s location sooner.

Officials had previously said that gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nev., shot Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos after Paddock had unleashed his deadly volley at the Route 91 Harvest festival, an assault that began at 10:05 p.m. and left 58 people dead, with hundreds more injured.

They had credited Campos, who was shot in the leg, with stopping the 10-minute assault on the concert crowd by turning the gunman’s attention to the hotel hallway, where Campos was checking an alert for an open door in another guest’s room.

But Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Monday that Paddock shot Campos before his mass shooting — at 9:59 p.m. — and they now don’t know why Paddock stopped his attack on the crowd.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bumpstock; camposmotive; jesuscampos; lasvegas; lvinvestigation; lvmassacre; paddocktimeline; shooter; stephenpaddock; witnesssuicide
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Someone else on FR mentioned that people that work there know the front desk doesn’t contact the police right away....so... I’m guessing after he reported that he had been shot he called someone close to him. Maybe the person that was yelling in the crowd?

I think most people after being severely hurt want to contact a loved one as soon as possible. Surely he had a cell phone on him.


201 posted on 10/10/2017 10:30:24 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: Ms Mable

They only call after the 201’st round is fired, so he was under the limit.


202 posted on 10/10/2017 1:20:57 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: skimbell

I honestly believe We The People NEVER get the straight dope on ANY of these situations.

I try to follow the money in most cases. *SHRUG*


203 posted on 10/10/2017 4:09:10 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Cvengr
"this is Las Vegas we’re discussing"

And it might reach the epitome of the quality/saying, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"...
204 posted on 10/10/2017 5:29:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ALASKA

Bttt!


205 posted on 10/10/2017 6:09:25 PM PDT by Pagey (8 years of MISERY, Thanks to Valerie Jarrett. Wretched human.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

IMHO, it gets weirder when the article starts to reference the FBI searching for piglets.


206 posted on 10/10/2017 7:48:29 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: ALASKA

las vegas shooting doctored timeline permits paddock as patsy conjecture
me | 2017/10/09 | me

Posted on 10/10/2017, 9:09:22 PM by SteveH

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3593825/posts


207 posted on 10/10/2017 10:09:59 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: SteveH

I don’t doubt that.


208 posted on 10/11/2017 8:06:02 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching a coup..........)
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To: DoughtyOne
In a few weeks we’ll have a much better idea of how thing actually transpired.

In a few weeks more Bravo Sierra will be stacked.

209 posted on 10/13/2017 12:46:14 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Left Hates Trump, So I'm Lovin Him)
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To: attiladhun2

If you go back and study just about any major event, you will find many conflicts of details.

This doesn’t bother me like it does some folks who are always looking for another conspiracy.


210 posted on 10/13/2017 12:53:05 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I guess we can always believe the official media and government accounts of events. I have learned to disbelieve just about everything we are told, until it can be confirmed by other sources. If that constitutes a “conspiracy,” then so be it. I knew we were getting snowed about this shooting almost from the gate.


211 posted on 10/17/2017 11:14:44 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: attiladhun2

Please explain the major conspiracy, what lies were told and to what end they fed into ‘the great deceiving’, so that something could be achieved or avoided.

Thanks.

What was achieved?

What was avoided?


212 posted on 10/17/2017 11:23:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: DoughtyOne

How about the OKC bombing. Far more persons were involved than just McVeigh and Nichols, yet they were the only ones convicted. An Iraqi by the name of Hussein al-Husseini was seen with McVeigh in the days leading up to the bombing, was spotted by eyewitnesses parking the Ryder truck in front of the entrance to the Murrah Bldg,and was seen by others fleeing from the scene just before the explosion. However, in order to maintain the “vast right-wing” conspiracy narrative, this and a host of other evidence was deliberately ignored by the government in prosecuting the case. Sounds pretty conspiratorial to me.


213 posted on 10/17/2017 11:59:43 AM PDT by attiladhun2
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To: attiladhun2

I too think we weren’t told the truth, and the justice system did not pursue all the criminals.

What bothers me, is when we go ape over something that isn’t warranted, we damage our ability to be heard on TWA800 and the OKC Bombing case.

We get dismissed out of hand.

TWA800, the OKC bombing, the Davidian murders, the Weaver case...

Folks need to come up with something regarding Las Vegas.

All the anomalies add up to nothing at this point.


214 posted on 10/17/2017 12:05:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: ALASKA
If the security guard was shot in an ammo orgy of 200 rounds and reported it to the hotel, why did the perp have another 12 minutes to murder 58 people.

I have been trying to figure out the same thing. When you read transcripts of LE radio traffic it is clear they responded to reports of shooting at the venue. It is also clear they have no idea where the shooter is and the transcripts take you through their process to figure out where the shooter is.

Different articles say that Campos and Schuck used their radios to report hallway shooting. Staff at the hotel should have known exactly where the shooter was.

I think the key question is when did the hotel staff call 911 or otherwise notify LVMPD there was a shooter in the hotel?

215 posted on 10/17/2017 12:08:18 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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