The hero security guard who was shot during the Las Vegas massacre has gone into hiding since vanishing moments before he was scheduled to speak to the media.
Jesus Campos is yet to be interviewed since being fired upon by Stephen Paddock on October 1 while on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
He is thought to have saved lives by distracting the mass murderer as he was firing into a crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
On Thursday, Campos was due to appear at a press conference after being given an award for his bravery, but he vanished.
On Thursday, Campos (pictured) was due to appear at a press conference after being given an award for his bravery, but he vanished
Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos (pictured for the first time since the Las Vegas massacre) visited a clinic on Thursday after vanishing moments before he was due before the media
Campos (second from right) is shown accepting an award from the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America on Monday
The whereabouts of Campos (second from right) are unknown after he decided to ditch his interviews with the media
His union representative said on Saturday that Campos was taken to a clinic shortly afterwards
‘Right now I’m just concerned where my member is, and what his condition is. It’s highly unusual.
‘I’m hoping everything is OK with him and I’m sure MGM or the union will let [the media] know when we hear something,’ David Hickey is the president of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America, told Fox 5 Vegas.
But the man of the moment has still not appeared amid mounting evidence that he wishes to dodge the media.
He canceled on Sean Hannity as well as CBS, CNN, ABC and NBC on Thursday while Hickey believed he was staying at a Vegas hotel.
Campos was pictured for the first time since the massacre on October 10 as he accepted an award from his union.
As music fans at the Route 91 Harvest festival fled, Campos alerted police to Paddock’s whereabouts
Jesus Campos is yet to be interviewed since being fired upon by Stephen Paddock (pictured) on October 1 while on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel
Fox News’ Sean Hannity tweeted that Campos cancelled his appearance on his show Thursday night
According to the LA Times, a man was spotted in a white truck outside his home in northern Las Vegas on Sunday.
The license plate was covered with a towel and, when asked, the driver said he had been hired to guard the house and stop the media getting into Campos’s property.
But he did not tell the paper who hired him.
There are also signs reading ‘No media on property’ and ‘No trespassing’ outside Campos’s home.
Jaime Ruano, a neighbor of Campos’s, said: ‘He’s a hero. And nobody knows where he is.’
NBC reporter Craig Fiegener, meanwhile, has reported the presence of armed guards outside Campos’s home.
It comes as confusion builds over what actually happened to him on the fateful night.
Campos’s disappearance came just hours after MGM Resorts International, which owns the Mandalay Bay, disputed the official timeline of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
The firm rejected any suggestion that hotel staff delayed calling 911 for six minutes after Paddock opened fire.
The latest chronology raised a series of questions about whether officers were given information quickly enough to possibly have a chance to take out the gunman before he could carry out the bloodshed.
But according to resort officials, it was no more than 40 seconds between the time Campos used his walkie talkie to call for help and Paddock opening fire on the crowd from two windows in his suite.
Earlier in the investigation, police had said that Paddock shot through his door and wounded Campos after the guard distracted him from firing on the crowd out the windows.
Campos’s union president said the latest timeline does not dispute the assertion that the guard is ‘still a hero, saving his coworker, possibly stopping additional shots,’ reported Stephanie Wash.