{"id":1803,"date":"2017-10-10T03:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T03:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2017-10-10T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:28:23","slug":"las-vegas-security-guard-was-shot-before-gunman-opened-fire-on-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/las-vegas-security-guard-was-shot-before-gunman-opened-fire-on-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas security guard was shot before gunman opened fire on crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"headline   component \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__socials\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hero-area-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"footer-author\">\n<div class=\"byline component  \"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<article>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText version-2 section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  version-2\">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">A<\/span>hotel security guard was shot by the Las Vegas mass shooting\u2019s gunman six minutes before he opened fire on concert-goers, authorities said on Monday, revising the timeline of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo had previously said the guard was shot after<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/0\/stephen-paddock-mandalay-bay-attacker-motive\/\">\u00a0gunman Stephen Paddock<\/a>\u00a0fired at the country music festival and that the guard\u2019s arrival in the hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel may have caused Paddock to stop firing.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear why the timeline of the shooting changed a week later and what the impact could be on the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Lombardo said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/05\/just-job-las-vegas-security-guard-jesus-campos-hailed-braving\/\">security guard Jesus Campos\u00a0<\/a>was in a hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel responding to a report of an open door when he heard drilling from Stephen Craig Paddock\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p>Paddock, who had installed three cameras to monitor the approach to his suite, opened fire through the door, spraying 200 shots down the hall and wounding the guard,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/09\/las-vegas-police-recall-moment-stormed-stephen-paddocks-gun\/\">who alerted other security officials<\/a>, Lombardo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyImage section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-image component \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"lazy-image article-body-image-image is-loaded\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/news\/2017\/10\/04\/TELEMMGLPICT000142625347_1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqoC1KLvdKTc_v1L1R92-Vtfv18YlR_ZdAeGXxy7N0ppo.jpeg?imwidth=480\" alt=\"Social media photo of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock\" \/><\/div><figcaption><span class=\"article-body-image-caption\">Social media photo of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"article-body-image-copyright\"><span class=\"article-body-image-copyright-label\">CREDIT:<\/span>\u00a0REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">S<\/span>ix minutes\u00a0later, Paddock began a 10-minute killing spree that killed 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US\u00a0history, Lombardo said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also said on Monday that Paddock targeted aviation fuel tanks, stocked his car with explosives and had personal protection gear as part of an escape plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dynamicMpu section\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">P<\/span>addock had power tools and was attempting to drill a hole in an adjacent wall, perhaps to mount another camera or to point a rifle through, but he never completed the work, Lombardo said. He also drilled holes and bolted a metal bar to try to prevent the opening of an emergency exit stairwell door near the door of his room.<\/p>\n<p>Lombardo again expressed frustration with the pace of the investigation, but not with the investigators who have yet to pinpoint the motive behind the shooter\u2019s decision to fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel casino on a Las Vegas Strip concert crowd of 22,000 on October\u00a01.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s because this individual purposely hid his actions leading up to this event, and it is difficult for us to find the answers to those actions,&#8221; Lombardo said. &#8220;We believe he decided to take the lives he did and he had a very purposeful plan that he carried out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"videoPlayer section\">\n<div id=\"video-cweHJ3YzE6sOkny5-QNR-nrQVatYGxnu\" class=\"js-video-player video-player component cq-dd-ooyala\">\n<div class=\"js-video-player__component-content component-content\">\n<div class=\"js-video-player__image-controls-play__button video-player__image-controls-play__button\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-video-player__image video-player__image\" src=\"http:\/\/17909.cdx.c.ooyala.com\/cweHJ3YzE6sOkny5-QNR-nrQVatYGxnu\/promo331457611\" alt=\"Hotel security guard praised by Trump and Las Vegas police for helping to stop shooter\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"video-player__image-controls-wrapper\"><span class=\"video-player__image-controls\"><span class=\"js-video-player__image-controls-title video-player__image-controls-title\">Hotel security guard praised by Trump and Las Vegas police for helping to stop shooter<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">T<\/span>here is still no evidence Paddock was motivated by ideology, or that there was another shooter, he said. Investigators have found 200 incidents of Paddock moving through the city, and at no time was he with anyone else, Lombardo said.<\/p>\n<p>Lombardo said police and FBI agents, including behavioural profilers, still haven\u2019t found a particular event in Paddock\u2019s life that might have triggered the shooting. The sheriff added that a complete evaluation of Paddock\u2019s mental condition was not yet done. Authorities didn\u2019t find a note in his room, only a paper with numbers, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dynamicMpu section\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">I<\/span>nvestigators believe<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/08\/las-vegas-gunmans-note-contained-calculations-maximise-kills\/\">\u00a0the numbers represented calculations for more precise shots,<\/a>\u00a0according to a law enforcement official.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff also confirmed investigators were talking with Paddock\u2019s brother Eric Paddock, who travelled to Las Vegas, and continue to speak with the shooter\u2019s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, to get insight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"videoPlayer section\">\n<div id=\"video-JnbGJ3YzE6bno8UvGCsxdESQzuSZOWlG\" class=\"js-video-player video-player component cq-dd-ooyala\">\n<div class=\"js-video-player__component-content component-content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-video-player__image video-player__image\" src=\"http:\/\/17909.cdx.c.ooyala.com\/JnbGJ3YzE6bno8UvGCsxdESQzuSZOWlG\/promo331370925\" alt=\"Police bodycam video captures chaos of Las Vegas shooting\" width=\"703\" height=\"395\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"video-player__image-controls-wrapper\"><span class=\"video-player__image-controls\"><span class=\"js-video-player__image-controls-title video-player__image-controls-title\">Police bodycam video captures chaos of Las Vegas shooting<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"js-video-player__image-controls-play__button video-player__image-controls-play__button\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">L<\/span>ombardo declined to reveal what they\u2019ve said, but he stated, &#8220;Every piece of information we get is one more piece of the puzzle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eric Paddock said he came to Las Vegas to retrieve his brother\u2019s body in hopes of sending the cremated ashes to their 89-year-old mother in Orlando.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"htmlEmbed section\">\n<div class=\"html-embed component \">\n<div class=\"component-content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component  \">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">C<\/span>lark County Coroner John Fudenberg said on Monday he could not discuss the results of an autopsy done on Stephen Paddock, who police said shot himself dead before officers arrived at the Las Vegas Strip hotel suite from which he rained gunfire on a concert crowd below.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Paddock told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he planned\u00a0to put his brother\u2019s assets in a trust that would benefit the shooting victims.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>Las Vegas security guard was shot before gunman opened fire on crowd &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bndl.tw\/uSplDSpX\">http:\/\/bndl.tw\/uSplDSpX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahotel security guard was shot by the Las Vegas mass shooting\u2019s gunman six minutes before he opened fire on concert-goers, authorities said on Monday, revising the timeline of the attack. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo had previously said the guard was shot after\u00a0gunman Stephen Paddock\u00a0fired at the country music festival and that the guard\u2019s arrival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-other","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}