What We Know, vs. What We're Told

First the story, as published in the Daily Beast

LAS VEGAS — Jesus Campos had no firearm when he found Stephen Paddock and approached his room on the 32rd floor of Mandalay Bay on Sunday night. Paddock, who had rigged cameras in the hallway and on the peephole of the door, saw Campos coming and fired through the door, hitting him in the leg, said Dave Hickey, president of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America. The union represents Campos and hundreds of security guards at Mandalay Bay.
When Campos was hit, he radioed casino dispatch and told him his location — and Paddock’s.
“We received information via their dispatch center...that helped us locate where this individual was sequestered,” Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters Tuesday.
Police officers who subsequently approached the room received gunfire and backed off until SWAT responded, Lombardo said.
“We would not have engaged this individual in the time lapse we did without their assistance,” Lombardo later added.

 

Paddock had somehow blocked stairwell doors leading to the hallway outside of his room, Hickey said, meaning Campos had to take the elevator on his quest to find the source of the gunfire that was killing dozens below. The door to the room itself was also barricaded, Campos found when he tried to open it, just before the bullets came through the door.  

About an hour after Paddock quit firing, a SWAT team gained entry to the suite by blowing the doors off with explosives. Paddock was found dead inside from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Without Campos' action, the mass murderer’s rampage that killed 58 people could have been even more deadly.

Now, what we really know:

 LAS VEGAS — Jesus Campos had no firearm when he found approached Room 32-135 on the 32rd floor of Mandalay Bay on Sunday night. 

The shooter inside, who had rigged cameras in the hallway and on the peephole of the door, saw Campos coming and fired through the door, hitting him in the leg, said Dave Hickey, president of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America. The union represents Campos and hundreds of security guards at Mandalay Bay.  

Someone had somehow blocked stairwell doors leading to the hallway outside of his room, Hickey said, meaning Campos had to take the elevator on his quest to find the source of the gunfire that was killing dozens below. The door to the room itself was also barricaded, Campos found when he tried to open it, just before the bullets came through the door.

When Campos was hit, he radioed casino dispatch and told him his location — and the room where the gunfire came from. 

“We received information via their dispatch center...that helped us locate where this individual was sequestered,” Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters Tuesday. 

Police officers who subsequently approached the room received gunfire and backed off until SWAT responded, Lombardo said. 

“We would not have engaged this individual in the time lapse we did without their assistance,” Lombardo later added. 

About an hour after the gunman quit firing, a SWAT team gained entry to the suite by blowing the doors off with explosives. Paddock was found dead inside from a presumed self-inflicted gunshot wound. Without Campos' action, the mass murderer’s rampage that killed 58 people could have been even more deadly.

Look at the difference.
Who shot Campos? (Someone in the room, obviously, but it's a friggin' cinch he didn't yell his name out, show his face, and wave ID before he fired through the door.)
Where was Campos after he was shot, and before police arrived?
Did he, cameras, or anybody have eyes on the stairwell and hallway doors the entire time?
If not, how long was that time lapse between the security guard's departure, and the arrival of LVMPD officers?
Was the other adjoining room door also blocked from the inside?
Did they secure the blocked stairwell door at that point or prior, and if not, at what point was the room, and its occupant(s), fully contained to anything short of disapparition or BASE jumping out the window?

Any time lag in observation and containment introduces the elephantine possibility that there was more than one shooter, which would take this story into orbit.

Assuming Paddock was the shooter, and was alone inside the room, and couldn't get out, then he had to have shot at the later-arriving officers.
(And presumably subsequently killed himself, despite having enough firepower to take on a platoon of combat troops, and knowing the eventual outcome, nothing else to lose by doing just that. WTF?)

So, did the officers holding down the perimeter hear that shot?
When?
 And if the cops had him penned in, why did it take SWAT another hour - after the room was well-known - to make a forcible entry?

So, yet again, one small piece-of-the-puzzle answer, ten more huge questions.

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Just for giggles:
It turns out that Mr. Mass Shooter's brother is also a multi-award-winning felon and jailbird, as well as his bank-robbing prison-breaking daddy.

One of the Las Vegas shooter's brothers has a long criminal rap sheet including charges for arson and theft and once declared personal bankruptcy. 

After Sunday's atrocity, Bruce Paddock spoke out to say he was shocked that his older brother Stephen could commit the mass slaughter. 

He said he and Stephen, 64, had not spoken for 10 years but revealed that he'd made millions through property deals. 

Now it can be revealed that Bruce, 57, has been arrested for at least four felonies. 

The charges are for a range of alleged crimes including the sale of marijuana, theft and burglary.

TMZ claims he also has been arrested for arson, criminal threats and driving on a suspended license. 

 

But this guy would rather eat his gun than face the cops, with an arsenal in hand?
Still not buying it.