2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The cold-blooded massacre by Stephen Paddock of a crowd at an open-air concert in Las Vegas could have been even worse had it not been for the brave intervention of a Hispanic man. Injured in the leg and unarmed, the man helped stop the gunman.
This Wednesday at a press conference Joseph Lombardo, sheriff of the Las Vegas metropolitan police, praised Jesús Campos for his “incredible” feat in locating the dangerous 64-year-old man who, entrenched in his room, was shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
Dave Hickey, president of the International Union of Security, Police and Fire of America, explained that Campos approached Paddock's room. The man had detected that was where the bursts of gunfire raining down from the crowd of 20,000 people listening to singer Jason Aldean came from.
Paddock had placed cameras in the door peephole and hallways to monitor the exteriors of his room, so he was able to detect Campos' presence. Inclemently the subject shot from inside the room and wounded Campos in the right leg.
But still wounded, Campos went ahead and radioed the presence of the individual, who continued to spray him with more than 200 shots, Hickey told The Daily Beast. In seconds reinforcements arrived and it was then that Paddock killed himself.
Incredibly, and despite being injured, Campos continued to assist the police. First, he gave them the hotel master key so that they could enter the room, and then he went about the task of going room by room to try to remove the guests staying in the apartment.
It was only until the authorities practically forced him to leave the fire zone that Campos received medical treatment. "It is incredible that this security guard had no major injuries," emphasized Lombardo. The shooting that occurred on Sunday left 59 dead and more than 520 wounded.
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