Mandalay Bay security officer Jesus Campos has been staying at an MGM Resorts International property at the company’s expense following the deadly Oct. 1 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, the Review-Journal has learned. As a result, some veteran trial lawyers are questioning the company’s gesture and potential influence over Campos, a key witness in the criminal investigation and civil litigation against MGM Resorts.
Las Vegas musician Bryan Hopkins tells how he and others eluded the shooter’s bullets during the Route 91 Harvest music festival Oct. 1, including taking refuge in a refrigerated compartment and later making dash to safety.
Christina Stewart had only two things on her mind as rapid-fire bullets rained down on the Route 91 Harvest Festival: get out alive and warn her fellow air traffic controllers.
It was about 10:08 p.m. on Oct. 1 when Las Vegas police officer Brady Cook caught a bullet below his right shoulder.
A Las Vegas cabbie who drove five passengers to safety the night of the mass shooting on the Strip is tired of being framed as a hero. “There were so many other people who put themselves in harm’s way,” Cori Langdon said. “I just stumbled upon it.”
Off-duty Henderson firefighter Anthony Robone was on the west side of the Route 91 Harvest festival stage about halfway back in the crowd with his girlfriend, brother and three friends when the shooting started Sunday night.
Raymond Page was adjusting traffic signal timing when the gun shots rang on Sunday night outside Mandalay Bay.
Before the 32nd-floor window of Mandalay Bay was obliterated, the night hadn’t been particularly eventful for Glen Simpson, an emergency medical responder. That was before 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired an automatic-style rifle into a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers Sunday.
Summer Clyburn didn’t realize what was happening at the Route 91 Harvest Festival until she turned around and saw her fiance, Michael Gracia, on the ground. Gracia, an officer with the Ontario (California) Police Department, had been shot in the head. Summer shielded Michael with her own body and took a bullet in the back.
Her father was UNLV’s quarterback after Randall Cunningham, so perhaps it wasn’t a big surprise how Savannah Stallworth reacted after deadly shots rang out at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival that left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.
