California: Las Vegas police presented a third version on Friday of the timeline of events for the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself, saying they responded immediately to the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, who oversees the Las Vegas police department, told reporters that gunman Stephen Paddock shot at Mandalay Bay hotel security guard Jesus Campos outside his room on October 1 at about the same time he opened fire on the more than 20,000 concertgoers at an outdoor venue.
Previously, police said that Paddock shot Campos six minutes before he started firing on the crowd, raising questions as to whether police and hotel security could have acted faster to prevent casualties in the attack.
"Nobody is attempting to hide anything. The dynamics and the size of the investigation require us to go through voluminous amounts of information in order to draw an accurate picture," Lombardo said of the changing timeline.
The police account is similar to one given on Thursday by the hotel operator MGM Resorts International, which said in a statement that Paddock opened fire on Campos and the crowd at the same time or within 40 seconds.
Campos was shot in the leg when Paddock strafed the hallway with about 200 bullets, police said. Agencies