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U.S. NEWS Thursday 19 OcTOber 2017

Hotel guard describes getting shot before Las Vegas massacre

By KEN RITTER working up here this late at
Associated Press night.’ We wouldn’t be do-
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The gun- ing that.”
man who unleashed the “It was, I believe, outside,”
deadliest mass shooting he said, referring to gunfire
in modern U.S. history first that authorities say Pad-
wounded an unsuspecting dock rained down from
hotel security guard in a broken windows into a
hallway who promptly ra- crowd of 22,000 at a coun-
dioed for help, according try music festival. “It wasn’t
to a TV interview broad- in the hallway yet.”
cast Wednesday with the Schuck said Campos
guard and a hotel building leaned out from a door en-
engineer whose life he is trance and yelled for him
credited with saving. to take cover.
In his only public recount- “Within milliseconds, if he
ing of the Oct. 1 shooting didn’t say that, I would
that killed 58 people and have got hit,” Schuck said,
wounded more than 500, describing bullets whizzing
guard Jesus Campos told past his head.
Ellen DeGeneres on her talk Police later said more than In this Oct. 17, 2017, photo released by Warner Bros., Stephen Schuck, left, and Jesus Campos ap-
show that he was heading 200 shots were fired into pear at a taping of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif. Schuck, a
down the hall after calling the hallway. building engineer, and Campos, a security guard, were working at the Mandalay Bay Resort and
for a maintenance worker Campos, who walked into Casino the night of the mass shooting on Oct. 1. Campos was shot by gunman Stephen Paddock.
when he heard “rapid fire” the interview with a cane, The show aired on Wednesday.
gunshots through the near- is recovering from a leg (Photo by Michael Rozman/Warner Bros.)
by doors of Stephen Pad- wound. Schuck wasn’t in- ance. changed dramatically a Friday, when Clark Coun-
dock’s suite in the Manda- jured. Both are on paid Campos drew intense at- week later, when authori- ty Sheriff Joe Lombardo
lay Bay. leave from their jobs, ac- tention when police hailed ties said Campos reported said Campos had been
“At first, I took cover. I felt a cording to officials at MGM him as a hero just after the being wounded at 9:59 dispatched to the 32nd
burning sensation. I went to Resorts International, which shooting, saying he unwit- p.m. — six minutes before floor at 9:59 p.m. and was
go lift my pant leg up, and owns the hotel. tingly stopped the massa- people in the concert wounded in the hallway
I saw the blood,” Campos The company, police and cre by arriving in the hall- crowd reported shots. less than a minute before
said. “That’s when I called the FBI declined to com- way. The timeline of the mas- the massacre started at
it in on my radio that shots ment on the TV appear- The police timeline sacre changed again last 10:05 p.m. q
had been fired.”
He didn’t say what time Jerry Sandusky denied new trial on abuse charges
that was.
The hotel engineer, Ste- By MARK SCOLFORO lawyers said they were dis- wrongly convicted. He ar- ject” with victims and other
phen Schuck, who was Associated Press appointed and planned to gued that he did not re- witnesses, Foradora wrote.
sent to check a fire exit HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — appeal the decision to Su- ceive adequate represen- Foradora also rejected ar-
door that Campos found Jerry Sandusky lost a bid perior Court. tation at his 2012 trial and guments that Sandusky’s
bolted shut, told DeGe- Wednesday for a new trial “The court’s decision is not that prosecutors should lawyers should not have
neres that he didn’t hear and a second chance to the end of Jerry’s case, it is have disclosed more de- let him waive a preliminary
gunfire when he reached convince a jury he is in- only the closing of a chap- tails about changes to vic- hearing, should not have
the opposite end of the nocent of the child sexual ter which we need to go tims’ stories. allowed him to give a tele-
32nd floor hallway. Then, abuse charges that landed through in the course of our “Although he was denied vision interview after his ar-
he heard what he thought him in state prison to serve endeavor to obtain a new access to the victims’ psy- rest, and should have done
was the sound of construc- a lengthy sentence. trial, a reversal of his con- chological records, San- more to challenge the
tion. Judge John Foradora de- viction, and ultimately his dusky was permitted to call identity of a young man
“I didn’t know it was shoot- nied Sandusky’s requests release and vindication,” witnesses to explore wheth- described as Victim 2 in
ing. I thought it was a jack- for a new trial or for dismiss- said defense attorney Al er the victims had under- court records.
hammer,” Schuck said. al of charges. Lindsay. gone repressed memory The judge said the bulk of
“And, you know as an en- The former Penn State as- Sandusky, 73, has consis- therapy prior to trial, and Sandusky’s claims lacked
gineer, I’m like, ‘We’re not sistant football coach’s tently maintained he was he did explore that sub- merit.q