Another Shift in Las Vegas Timeline Caps Days of Confusion
The Las Vegas police again revised the timeline of the Oct. 1 shooting at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, saying on Friday
that Stephen Paddock shot and wounded a security guard on his hotel floor about the same time he began to spray bullets on a country music concert below.
The gunman shot the guard, Jesus Campos, around 10:05 p.m., Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said at a brief news conference on Friday, not at 9:59 p.m., as he had told reporters on Monday,
and not after Mr. Paddock stopped firing on the crowd at 10:15, as the sheriff said on Oct. 4.
The police have said that investigators found several bullets in aviation fuel tanks near the concert grounds, and on Friday Sheriff Lombardo said
that his team believed Mr. Paddock had fired at them “with intent.” He noted that there was “very low probability” that gunfire could have ignited the fuel.
Thousands of people involved — humans involved — in documentation.”
The announcement caps almost two weeks of confusion about the chronology of the shooting, in which Mr. Paddock, a high-stakes gambler, hauled powerful weapons into the gold-paneled hotel
and casino, pointed them out the window of his suite and shot at thousands of people below.
