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kwassa

(23,340 posts)
Fri Oct 6, 2017, 08:25 PM Oct 2017

The security guard that stopped the shooter Paddock was investigating something else!

(CNN)An open door a few rooms away from the Las Vegas suite of the man who was gunning down concertgoers at a music festival set off an alarm that prompted a response from a security guard, Clark County Undersheriff Kevin C. McMahill said Friday.

Authorities believe that the guard drew the attention of mass murderer Stephen Paddock away from the chaos below and toward the hallway outside his room.

The guard, Jesus Campos, was shot in the leg while checking on the alarm and according to a police-reported timeline, Paddock never fired on the crowd below again.

The alarm from a room "a number of doors down" from Paddock's likely was a coincidence, McMahill told CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." The door was not forced open, had been open for a while, and Paddock didn't have the keys to that room. McMahill said that door either had been left open or didn't shut completely.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/06/us/las-vegas-shooting-investigation/index.html

In other words, the security guard happened upon Paddock accidentally, not as a result of investigating the shooting spree.
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The security guard that stopped the shooter Paddock was investigating something else! (Original Post) kwassa Oct 2017 OP
Frank Wills ? n/t jaysunb Oct 2017 #1
Shouldn't be a surprise. He was already out investigating. All the joeybee12 Oct 2017 #2
So if he had not been there............ JI7 Oct 2017 #3
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
2. Shouldn't be a surprise. He was already out investigating. All the
Fri Oct 6, 2017, 08:52 PM
Oct 2017

Security guards were told to stay away because they were unarmedand also might interfere.

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