Las Vegas police released records on Wednesday that clearly captured the sound of a SWAT officer accidentally firing his rifle inside the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman’s Mandalay Bay suite on Oct. 1.
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The report did not reference communication issues surrounding the county-run hospital’s status immediately after the shooting or its improper use of an “internal disaster” alert during the mass casualty incident.
Las Vegas police and Clark County firefighters experienced numerous communication problems and failed to follow some protocols on the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, according to a federal report released Monday.
More than 10 months after the mass shooting on the Strip, Las Vegas police on Wednesday released another batch of records from the Oct. 1 tragedy.
Read the final report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
“We have not been able to definitively answer the ‘why,’” then-Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said August 3, 2018, at a news briefing to discuss the department’s final report on the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.