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U.S. NEWS Friday 13 OctOber 2017
Hotel: Gunman shot at crowd seconds after shooting guard

By MICHAEL BALSAMO ter he had stopped shoot-
Associated Press ing.
Mandalay Bay hotel offi- In a statement Thursday,
cials said Thursday the Las MGM Resorts International,
Vegas gunman wounded which owns the Mandalay
a security guard in a hotel Bay, said the reported time
hallway within 40 seconds of the hallway shooting,
of firing into the crowd at a which Clark County Sheriff
music festival, disputing a Joe Lombardo said hap-
police timeline that put six pened at 9:59 p.m., came
minutes from the time the from a report that was
guard was shot and when manually created after the
Stephen Paddock commit- massacre.
ted the worst mass shoot- “We are now confident
ing in U.S. history. that the time stated in this
In the most recent chro- report is not accurate,” the
nology given by investiga- statement said.
tors on Monday, police Hotel officials believe Pad-
said Paddock sprayed 200 dock began shooting into
rounds into the hallway the concert crowd “at the
on the 32nd floor Oct. 1, same time as, or within 40
wounding an unarmed seconds after” the wound-
security guard in the leg, ed guard, Jesus Campos, Miguel Cervantes comforts his niece Chantel Sosa as she cries at the graveside during a funeral
six minutes before he un- used his radio to call for for her brother Erick Silva, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Las Vegas. Silva, who was working as a secu-
leashed his barrage of bul- help, the statement said. rity guard, was killed during a mass shooting Oct. 1, in Las Vegas.
lets on the festival crowd. A maintenance worker, (AP Photo/John Locher)
He killed 58 people and Stephen Schuck, also asking a dispatcher to call one was shooting a rifle on lice declined to comment
injured nearly 500 before called for help on his radio, the police because some- the hotel’s 32nd floor.Po- on MGM’s statement. q
taking his own life.
The 64-year-old high-stakes Massachusetts on its way to banning bump stocks
gambler and real estate
investor began his 10-min- By STEVE LeBLANC weapons to mimic fully au- on. A day earlier the state ban if it reaches his desk.
ute attack on the crowd Associated Press tomatic guns. House voted 151-3 in favor A bump stock fits over the
at 10:05 p.m., firing more BOSTON (AP) — Massachu- The Massachusetts Senate of a bump stock ban. stock and grip of a semi-
than 1,000 rounds from his setts is on its way to becom- voted 33-0 on Thursday The two versions must be automatic rifle and allows
bashed-out windows, po- ing the first state since the to ban the sale of bump reconciled before a final the weapon to fire continu-
lice said. Police didn’t ar- Las Vegas shooting mas- stocks and trigger cranks, bill is sent to Republican ously. The Las Vegas shoot-
rive on the 32nd floor until sacre to outlaw devices attachments that increase Gov. Charlie Baker, who er had 12 weapons fitted
10:17 p.m., two minutes af- that allow semi-automatic the firing rate of a weap- has said he would sign a with such devices.q