Posted on 10/05/2017 8:18:32 AM PDT by marktwain
It was a heroic private security guard who stopped the mass killing coming from the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
In the timeline published yesterday, it was not clear if the security guard was accompanying the police, or ahead of them. Now we know. Undersheriff Kevin McMahill gave a briefing yesterday, 3 October, at 6 p.m.
In the briefing, Undersheriff McMahill details when the shooting ended. No more shots were fired at people outside the hotel after 10:19 p.m.
The information about the ending of the shooting is given between 3:17 and 5:30 on the video. McMahill releases these facts in remarkable agreement with what I concluded in yesterday's article.
The mass killer started firing about 10:08. He fired for 9-11 minutes and a dozen or so volleys. He stopped firing at 10:19.
Four officers were working the Mandalay Bay at another event. They formed a team and were approaching the room on the 32nd floor. A heroic security guard was ahead of the police. Three cameras had been placed by the mass killer. Two were in the hallway, one in the room looking out the peephole. The guard was advancing toward the room when he was shot. The shooting stopped, just after the security guard was shot.
The mass killer shot him through the door. Although wounded, he was able to give details to the police, completing the identification of the room.
We do not know for certain if the security guard was armed. Some are, some are not. It seems likely that this guard was, but we do not know as yet. It appears the mass killer killed himself at this time. There are no further reports of gunshots until the SWAT Team blew down the door.
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But no further shots outside of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
The security guard interrupted the killing; but the police were needed to insure that it stayed stopped.
From what I’ve read, the security guard was not armed. The shooter had to know that a SWAT team would not be far behind him though.
Did the guard survive?
Just wounded from what I hear
From what I’ve read, the security guard was not armed.
I have heard that now, as well. In addition, he kept going door to door to explain the situation to hotel guests, until the police forced him to get treatment at the hospital, because he was wounded.
From what I saw in several articles the security guard was still ambulatory, though wounded, and continued to help clear guests from the 32nd floor until he was ordered to leave and accept medical attention. So my impression is that he survived (so long as there was not some drastic medical downturn later). I sure hope we will find out more about this heroic fellow in days to come. He could have stayed back to wait for reinforcements, especially if he was unarmed, but he knew that every second and minute was critical in locating the source of the shooting and he went looking for the gunman/gunmen. WHAT A HERO!!!!
Should be nominated for a presidential award.
Probably had cameras in the stairwell and saw the SWAT team had his escape closed.
"Yeah, it's the room with the bullet hole in the door."
Yes, indeed!!! He needs to be recognized at the White House. I’m sure someone like that does not seek or expect recognition, but it is important for ALL OF US that the truly best people like this be recognized and honored and celebrated.
Many other heroes emerged, within the concert crowd and at the hotel, etc. I trust that President Trump’s team will arrange some appropriate recognitions at a later date.
It seems to be often unreported that nut job shooters generally stop and/or suicide when confronted by armed or official resistance.
So armed citizens and security forces as well as law enforcement are forces for stopping such attacks.
What may have stopped him before anything/anyone else could...
That bump stock.
Ten minutes of that may be about anyone can handle.
I haven’t used one. Perhaps hundreds of shots recoiling into your shoulder isn’t an easy thing to endure.
Yes.
The sooner they are confronted, the lower the death toll.
Here are 28 incidents where armed citizens stopped what would have been mass murders.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/05/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html
Not a first responder and not in a public union.
Right! Just an every day guy, doing his job! In addition to a medal, I hope he gets a huge monetary reward!
It's not the recoil a bump-stock that's the problem with firing hundreds of consecutive shots from a rifle that's not designed to do such a thing, it's the tremendous heat that builds up in the rifle that will will cause a round to "cook-off" before the round is fully chambered and the bolt is locked in battery. When this happens, the unchambered round blows up in the shooter's face.
I wonder how many viable targets were in the killing box when he stopped.
10 minutes with a fully auto is a VERY long time.
Another 10 minutes would have been even worse.
One question I’ve not seen answered.... how many live rounds did this POS have left? IOW’s...was he really stopped, or did just run out of ammo?
I looked as if all the long guns the murderer had were some type of AR style weapons. They have buffer springs in the stocks that greatly reduce the recoil even on the 308/7.62 NATO calibers.
With those types of weapons you can fire all day long and not have any physical effects after.
Heck, my brother and I will go out on my property with a couple of our old Mosin Nagants (7.62 x 54R) and almost empty a 440 round "spam can" and those are old 1890s design bolt action with no recoil protection.
I did not know that he was the security guard.
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