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Pressure mounts for Vegas police to explain response time
By MICHAEL BALSAMO of Mandalay Bay when he
Associated Press heard gunshots and the
Pressure mounted Wednes- hotel security guard who
day for Las Vegas police to had been shot in the leg
explain how quickly they peeked out from an al-
reacted to what would be- cove and told him to take
come the deadliest mass cover. “It was kind of re-
shooting in modern U.S. lentless so I called over the
history after two hotel em- radio what was going on,”
ployees reported a gun- Schuck said. “As soon as
man spraying a hallway the shooting stopped we
with bullets six minutes be- made our way down the
fore he opened fire on a hallway and took cover
crowd at a musical perfor- again and then the shoot-
mance. ing started again.”
On Monday, Clark County Gunshots can be heard in
Sheriff Joe Lombardo re- the background as Schuck
vised the chronology of the used his radio to report
shooting and said the gun- the shooting, telling a dis-
man, Stephen Paddock, patcher: “Call the police,
had shot a hotel security someone’s firing a gun up
guard through the door of here. Someone’s firing a
his suite and strafed a hall- rifle on the 32nd floor down
way of the Mandalay Bay Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo discusses the Route 91 Harvest festival mass shooting at the Las the hallway.”
hotel and casino with 200 Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Las Vegas. Pressure mounted Wednesday Campos also used his ra-
rounds six minutes before for Las Vegas police to explain how quickly they reacted to what would become the deadliest dio and possibly a hallway
he unleashed a barrage of mass shooting in modern U.S. history. phone to call hotel dis-
bullets into the crowd. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP) patchers for help, police
That account differed dra- matically from the one po- lice gave last week when they said Paddock ended have said. It was unclear
his hail of fire on the crowd if and when the hotel re-
in order to shoot through layed the reports of shots
his door and wound the being fired to police.
unarmed guard, Jesus Las Vegas authorities did
Campos. “These people not respond to questions
that were killed and injured about whether hotel secu-
deserve to have those six rity or anyone else in the
minutes to protect them,” hotel called 911 to report
said Chad Pinkerton, an at- the gunfire. “Our officers
torney for Paige Gasper, a got there as fast as they
California college student possibly could and they
who was shot under the did what they were trained
arm in the attack. “We lost to do,” Las Vegas assistant
those six minutes.” sheriff Todd Fasulo said pre-
Maintenance worker Ste- viously. The parent compa-
phen Schuck told NBC ny of the hotel has raised
News that he was checking concerns that the revised
out a report of a jammed timeline presented by po-
fire door on the 32nd floor lice may be inaccurate. q
Ryan says bump stocks may
be addressed by regulation
By ALAN FRAM so-called bump stocks. The
Associated Press agency has said that once
WASHINGTON (AP) — New it issues a ruling on a weap-
federal rules would be “the on or equipment, it revises
smartest, quickest” way to its stance only if gun laws or
regulate the device the the equipment itself have
gunman in the Las Vegas changed. Ryan, R-Wis., said
massacre used to height- lawmakers are trying to fig-
en his firepower, House ure out why the bureau has
Speaker Paul Ryan said allowed the sale of bump
Wednesday in remarks that stocks.
suggested Congress was “This is a regulation that
unlikely to act first. probably shouldn’t have
It remains unclear, how- happened in the first
ever, what if any action place,” Ryan told reporters.
the federal Bureau of Al- He added, “We think the
cohol, Tobacco, Firearms regulatory fix is the smart-
and Explosives will take on est, quickest fix.”q
