First he defends the timeline of 9:59. He says the time was right, the circumstances were different. Then he says he agrees with MGM's statement the security guard's shooting was within 40 seconds of 10:05 when the mass shootings began.
Here's what he said that's confusing: 9:59 is the time. Mr. Campos encountered the barricaded door next to Paddock's room. He had to access the 32nd floor from another floor. He did that. He went to the 32nd floor to check the report of an open door on the floor. He mitigated that situation. He and then received fire from the suspect in close proximity to 22:05.
I think he's trying to say: 9:59 is the time he reached the 32nd floor from the stairwell but could not get access to the floor because Paddock had barricaded it. So he then went to another floor and got access. (Did he take the elevator? Why didn't he take the elevator in the first place?) Once on the 32nd floor, he went to the room with the open door and closed it. As he was walking down the hall after having closed the open door, he was shot by Paddock. The time is now close to 10:05 pm when the shooting began. He says Campos called security right away.
It is believed Paddock intentionally fired on the air tanks.
He is similarly unclear (and in my view, misleading) on the room registration. He confirms Paddock checked into a room in the hotel on the 25th and occupied it. He says on the 28th the compensation form changed and the name on the registration changed to include Marilou Danley.
He does not address whether he occupied the same room or changed rooms on the 28th. As I wrote here in depth, a person with access to the hotel's records told a newspaper that he asked for the suite, it wasn't available until Saturday.
A person who has seen Mandalay Bay hotel records that have been turned over to investigators said Wednesday they show Stephen Paddock asked for the two-room suite on the 32nd floor when he checked in last Thursday. The room wasn’t available until Saturday and he moved into it then and opened fire from it the next night, killing dozens and wounding hundreds.
Another report I read said he was comped as to the first room on the 25th but not the suite. Did he add Marilou's name to the registration on the 28th when he changed rooms so he could bill it to her credit card? Did he not have had credit cards in his own name to hide his activity and routinely use hers?
His other comments were mostly not news and repeats of his last conference: No brain abnormalities found (they've shipped it elsewhere for a second check.) The FBI agent with him said they can't say anymore because it's an ongoing investigation.
There's no reference to when Paddock broke the windows. There's no clearing up of early reports saying the 200 rounds he fired into the hallway occurred when the police arrived, which is what caused them not to breach the room until almost an hour after the shootings began. The maintenance worker, on the other hand, referred to shots coming down the hallway after Campos had been shot. If Paddock had fired 200 shots at Campos, wouldn't he have been hit by more than one bullet? How did just one bullet land in his thigh?
It's clear the Sheriff and FBI want the public to believe Paddock would have started shooting at the crowd attending the music festival even if the security guard not shown up. I'm not convinced of that yet, and it's mostly because of the Sheriff's clumsy way of explaining things.
