Campos was outside Suite 32-135 in the earliest moments of the shooting. One of the Mandalay Bay security guards with Hendrex and Varsin is heard telling the officers the exact location of the shooter in the elevator, but they decide to exit at floor 31.<\/p>\n
\nI know I hesitated and I remember being terrified with fear and I think I froze right there in the middle of the hall,” he wrote. “Did not know what to do next …\u00a0I thought that Las Vegas was under a very coordinated attack.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nLaw enforcement expert Michael Quinn tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal <\/i>said Hendrex might have felt a duty to protect Varsin, who was responding to her first shooting. But Quinn concluded, “My gut feeling is experienced officers would have moved on that room as quickly as they knew where it was.”<\/p>\n
Paddock had installed a makeshift surveillance system to monitor the hallway outside his room. At 11:20 pm, SWAT used an explosive device to enter the room, where they found Paddock dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
Sheriff for Another Term<\/b><\/h2>\n
Two hundred and seventy days later, there’s still no motive for Paddock’s actions that night. The slow records release has drawn criticism of Metro and raised inevitable questions about why the force would be so hesitant to show their actions throughout the event. But Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo insisted in the weeks after the shooting that\u00a0“no one is attempting to hide anything.”<\/span><\/p>\nDespite some criticism regarding his agency’s readiness for and responsiveness to that event, Lombardo was re-elected to another four-year term earlier this month with nearly 73 percent of the vote in the five-person race. The second-term sheriff raised more than 10 times the campaign fundraising compared to the others on the ballot. But that was less than half of the nearly $2 million he raised to win his sheriff’s seat initially in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In newly released Las Vegas shooting body camera footage, Metro officer Cordell Hendrex and second-day female trainee Elif Varsin responded to a call from Mandalay Bay about an unrelated trespassing call on the night of October 1, 2017. Moments later, mass murderer Stephen Paddock began firing from the 32nd floor. Hendrex, Varsin, and three armed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":82081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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