Paddock killed 58 people before taking his own life when\u00a0police moved in on his hotel room. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, but according to new information, the total number of casualties could have been much higher.<\/p>\n
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Located about 700 yards east of Mandalay Bay, two jet fuel tanks were hit with bullets from Paddock’s fire. The Las Vegas Review-Journal <\/i>first broke the news, which McCarran International Airport later confirmed. One of the tanks was penetrated by a bullet, but did not cause a fire or explosion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The development might explain the two broken-out windows at Paddock’s suite. The window facing northeast had an open view over the concert, but the southern window had a direct sightline of the fuel tanks.<\/p>\n
It’s unclear when the tanks were hit, but should the shooting have begun with an explosion powered by jet fuel east of the concert, it presumably would have made locating Paddock much more difficult amid the chaos.<\/p>\n
Security Guard as Hero<\/b><\/h2>\n
Inside Paddock’s parked car at Mandalay Bay, police found several pounds of ammonium nitrate, an ingredient used in making explosives. Had he been able to escape, it’s unknown what Paddock’s next move might have been.<\/p>\n
Jesus Campos, an unarmed Mandalay Bay security guard who was the first person to approach Paddock’s room, was at partially responsible for quelling the potential carnage. The gunman, who had set up surveillance cameras in the hallway outside his room, had to stop shooting from the window to attend to Campos as he made contact.<\/strong><\/p>\nHe fired 200 rounds through the door, but only struck Campos once in the leg. Law enforcement arrived a few minutes later. Stopping Paddock from firing for a few minutes likely saved many lives.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo revealed at his most recent press briefing that investigators believe shooter Stephen Paddock didn’t plan for things to end the way that they did. He wanted to cause many more fatalities, and much more chaos. Lombardo said law enforcement is not ruling out that Paddock had plans to escape his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":60169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,18,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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