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Documents were made public on Dec. 27 from statements of 18 of the hundreds of police officers who responded to the Las Vegas Strip shooting that killed 58 people and injured 869 on Oct. 1, 2017.
Officer Joseph Jones told department investigators it still was not clear when he arrived whether the shooter was inside or outside. Jones said he saw flashes at an upper-floor window before he and other officers started running toward the hotel.
In this Oct. 1, 2017, file photo, police run toward the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas.
He recalled, “We heard the automatic rifle fire.” Jones also said in a transcribed statement that his officer body-worn camera was recording when he arrived to find concert-goers running from the Route 91 Harvest Festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay hotel. Authorities determined that Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old former millionaire accountant, real estate investor, and high-limit video poker player, died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head before police reached him. Investigators determined that Paddock fired more than 1,000 shots in 11 minutes out of the windows and down the interior hallway.
They did not determine what motivated him to carefully plan and carry out the shooting. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo declared the police investigation ended in August, but weekly releases of police records to the media have continued under court order in a public records lawsuit by media organizations.
A final FBI report is expected to be released soon, containing a behavioral analysis of Paddock.
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