The question is, what was the time of the initial 911 call and where did it come from? I have a really hard time believing that this guy sends 200 rounds downrange and the first 911 call comes in 6 mins later. That dog won’t hunt.
He was shooting down the hall from inside the door? If you shoot a car engine with a .223/.557 it will penetrate the block of that engine. I have a friend who was a sniper. He told me they ran a demonstration with an AR 15 at 50 feet and it went through 27 panels of sheet rock . Now I assume that door was pretty solid but you will never convince me that the bullets didn’t enter the next room with lethal force.
It looks like there are about 24 rooms on that floor in that wing. Plus the people above and below that would have heard the shots. Although I bet a lot of them (like at the concert) could have thought it was fireworks or something.
I had a buddy that went to Disneyland with his fiance, and stayed at one of the hotels in the park. He said he heard a bunch of shooting right outside - he pushed is wife under the bed and dialed 911.
“Um sir - it’s okay - it’s just the nightly fireworks at 10pm at the park.”
Not only that, but if the guard was shot six minutes before Paddock started shooting at the crowd, what triggered Paddock to kill himself? There’s no mention of anyone else in the hallway until SWAT a long time later? Why didn’t he keep shooting, working the next thousand rounds that the police said he had? There’s a pretty big logical hole here . . .