Thursday, October 12, 2017

Further Bad Optics for Police & the Casino Hotel in Las Vegas

Two days after police revised their timeline for the shooting in Las Vegas, which left 58 dead and hundreds injured, a hotel maintenance worker said he told hotel dispatchers to call the police before the mass shooting started.

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This week, police said [hotel security guard Jesus] Campos was actually shot about six minutes before Paddock began firing on the crowd. “He called it in before” the attack started, possibly using a hallway phone to call hotel security, Clark County Assistant Sheriff Tom Roberts told the L.A. Times. “He manually called down and he used his radio to call … That’s what we were briefed this morning.”

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On Wednesday, the hotel maintenance worker, Stephen Schuck, revealed that he told hotel dispatchers to call the police as well. Like Campos, Schuck was responding to a report of a jammed fire door. When he arrived on the 32nd floor, he heard gunshots and Campos peeked out from an alcove and told him to take cover.

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“It was kind of relentless so I called over the radio what was going on,” he said.

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In an audio recording of Schuck’s call, he’s heard telling his maintenance department supervisor, “Call the police, someone’s firing a gun up here. Someone’s firing a rifle on the 32nd floor down the hallway.”

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“We cannot be certain about the most recent timeline that has been communicated publically, [sic] and we believe what is currently being expressed may not be accurate,” the company said in a statement.

  NY Magazine
Gee, I bet there's a record of that call you could look at.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  It looks like the hallway shooting did not take place before the crowd shooting. 

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