Chilling footage shows Las Vegas cops waiting in a corridor while Mandalay Bay gunman opens fire

Cops waited in a corridor of the Mandalay Bay hotel while Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from the floor above, it has emerged. 

Body cam footage released by the Las Vegas police department shows officers holding their position on the 31st floor while Paddock killed 58 people upstairs, in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. 

A report on police radio describes the scene outside, saying: ‘Automatic fire. Fully automatic fire from an elevated position.’ 

The police officers were told that the shooter was in a room on the floor above but maintained their position downstairs, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.  

Officers search hallways in body cam footage from the October 1, 2017 shooting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history 

Police officers rush into the Mandalay Bay resort and casino during the shooting in Las Vegas

Police officers rush into the Mandalay Bay resort and casino during the shooting in Las Vegas

Police and the FBI have declined to comment on the releases now amounting to eight batches since May 2.

The police department released the latest sequence of officer body-camera video clips and redacted recordings of 911 dispatch calls under court order.

They total nearly 1,200 audio files, 70 video files and hundreds of written records and witness accounts.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo has said authorities believe Paddock acted alone and the attack had no link to international terrorism.

Lombardo has said investigators might never know why Paddock meticulously stockpiled guns for the deadly attack on a concert crowd of 22,000 people. 

The records have provided gripping accounts of drama and danger but no additional information about a motive for the attack.

Police spokeswoman Carla Alston said in a statement: ‘Every officer’s actions that night are being evaluated.

‘This is an ongoing investigation. Part of that investigation is the evaluation of the performance, actions and conduct of every officer and civilian employee involved in the incident.’  

An officer ascends a stairwell in body cam footage released by the Las Vegas police  

An officer ascends a stairwell in body cam footage released by the Las Vegas police  

On officer walks inside the suite of shooter Stephen Paddock, after the gunman killed himself 

On officer walks inside the suite of shooter Stephen Paddock, after the gunman killed himself 

Body camera video shows officers sheltering behind patrol vehicles on the Las Vegas Strip in front of the Mandalay Bay hotel amid rapid gunfire from above.

‘I’m up to 30 victims with gunshots. Where is medical?’, one officer asks dispatchers from a makeshift triage scene near the Route 91 Harvest Festival venue. 

An officer says he sees flashes of gunfire from an upper floor window.

Officer Brady Cook shouts, ‘I got shot! My arm. My right arm!’ 

Four hours later, a police supervisor tells a dispatcher that she can answer Strip resorts asking when they can allow guests outside that Las Vegas Boulevard remains shut down but that people can use back entrances. 

Other videos show officers climbing the stairwell toward the 32nd floor, where authorities say gunman Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rounds out the windows.   



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