A Killer on Floor 32 l Watch the FULL Documentary

These hallowed grounds tell a tragic story of uncommon heroism and terror from the golden tower, meaning hundreds of people are running everywhere fearing this is just the first part of a multi-faceted attack over the past year for much of that night. It has remained a mystery how and why at first all we knew was what we saw captured on the cell phone, but after 10 months of investigation by authorities in coordination with MGM using surveillance videos, body cameras, come on with radio traffic and a 3D model that we can now present. one of the most complete views of a mass shooting that exposes the flaws in their system and shows the response Toby first 2017 Mandalay Bay security officer hey-zeus Campos is at a routine security check assigned to the alarm of a room on the 32nd

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where he was heading home. your head and mine was free at home after this he has no idea that he is about to become an accidental hero in what would become one of the most horrible nights in American history, as shown in This rendering provided exclusively to ABC News by MGM Once on the 30th Floor, he takes the stairs to the 32nd, but finds the exit door stuck, so he walks to the elevator and takes it down when something seemed wrong when he noticed the support on metal L shape that was secured and then held the door.

I secured that bracket strategically placed there by a man staying in the suite just a few feet away. I didn't know what was happening simply because that's not normal. I called our security office. I was transferred to the engineering office while he returned. I enter the hallway to check the room's alarm. It turns out that a babysitter a few doors down left the door ajar and hears a strange noise coming from that suite. I thought they were drill noises, like drilling. The massacre has just begun across the street, moments before Jason. Aldean took the stage on the final night of Route 91.

Harvest Festival bullets rained down on some dispatchers who were met with chilling silence as the shooter launches his attack on the 32nd

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. Campos, who is unarmed, continues walking through the hallway he passes through. a room service cart that the shooter is equipped with surveillance cameras is that or the sound of the stairwell door closing that alerts the shooter, he shoots through the door and on campus they hit me and I went to cover, I had to take a moment to realize what was happening suddenly you're under fire yes I went to lift my pant leg and I saw the blood coming down Campos takes refuge in this alcove by the door there's about two feet of debt that's enough to lean back and stay When radioing for help, the shooter turns toward the concertgoers below.

Las Vegas Metro Police officers respond to the scene. Feuer thumper. The agents are immobilized by automatic shots. Officer Brady Cook is shot in the moment captured by another officer's body camera. The echo of gunshots. across the strip leads to erroneous reports of shooters and at several hotels disappointing shooting at the Tropicana Hotel at the Tropicana yes, there has been a lot of confusion when I trust to show the shooting. Police are now concerned this may be part of a coordinated plot. Chief Andrew Walsh responds to the scene. What sticks with me is the fear, the pain in my stomach, that this was going to be just the first part of a multifaceted attack.

There is an active shooter. It may not have been confirmed that he is involved in terrorism. So three shooters so far. we're getting reports of shooting in News New York shooting at Tropicana who knows the diversion tactics you're not back at the hotel two key moments are happening almost simultaneously on the other side of Mandalay Bay from the guard shooters' position in the security office They are receiving news of what is happening during the concert as the officers exit and cross the casino floor towards an exit door thinking the threat is outside, as Stephen is shocked and the engineer rides an elevator to the 32nd floor in response. to an earlier call from campus about that.

L-Support pushing his maintenance cart, he exits the elevator and heads straight for danger. I began to hear gunshots towards the crowd. I didn't know it at the time. I had no idea what was going on at the time. What did? You think it sounded like a jackhammer because you would never expect to hear something like that. I noticed. I said cover you, it's not safe at that time, more bullets scattered. Suddenly, Chuck himself is under fire. Something hit me. In the back, as I was jumping for cover at the time, I thought, "You know I might get shot," so one time when I got here, I was shooting a rifle on the 32nd, those men from the security office From here they became alert and hurried towards the elevators.

I thought if I didn't get out of this hallway alive I wanted to contact Metro and the first responders so they could go up there because this is where the shooter is. Every second that makes up a surprise under fire on the 32nd floor is an opportunity for the concertgoers below to flee, so all those people had fled in that direction when the shots rang out, a lot of people did, I mean, it was in several directions, but without knowing where the bullets were coming from, you know, people fled. Melanson running four pages was an agonizing choice she and her mother were shot, we rolled her and a retired firefighter came up and told us we had to leave, she said if we wanted to live we had to leave.

I looked him in the eyes and he said. You have to go, so I did, we were jumping fences, jumping walls, we ended up at the Tropicana. Paige and her sister fled, leaving her mother Rosemarie in the care of a stranger. Once I was shot, I felt depressed. Stephanie at Paige we were hanging. about me saying mom, shouting my name mom and the next thing I know my body just floated and the shots I saw everyone. I could see my own body lying there, the next thing I know I was in heaven and I saw my dad and my two brothers and my uncle and it was so beautiful it was so beautiful that you didn't want to come back the ladies told me it's not your time Rosemarie you have to go back, it's not your time, there's sun.

The next thing I woke up I was in a door where they put me and they dragged me to the ambulance, you remember it, yes, but only 20 20 seconds and then the rest I don't remember anything, that retired firefighter kept his word to take her to a safe place, hundreds of people flooded the nearby streets where they established an improvised classification, the situation was like this, the police officers intervened as paramedics, you see the officers stopping to provide help, you see the officers bleeding from gunshot wounds, the damage here is very fast, everyone is coming right now, it's okay because he was shot. to his lungs the wounded were taken anyway we need your truck we just need to take people to the hospital okay, we have room here we have room for one in the neck in the middle of the chaos the police work to keep everyone calm.

Everything will be fine, we will start again like any other normal shift. Brandon was my apprentice that night. It was his second night on the job. Rookie Brandon Angstrom and veteran officer Richard Cole were just starting their night shift when the shooting began. Our sergeant. He had the radio on, gunshots came over the radio so he immediately yells at us to go to our cars, well we are driving there, we can hear every time someone activates their microphone on duty, we can hear automatic gunshots as soon as we arrive. It's time to go to work, try to help anyone we've heard from the beginning and that's when we met Frank, he came up to our car, he had his wife Giovanna in his arms and said: help me, I'm the officer police showing up. lifeless at the time we obviously knew this was very critical within the first 30 seconds to a minute of driving to the hospital we heard that an officer had been shot and Brandon realized it was someone he had gone to the Academy with me too.

I'm saying that Officer Brady Cook, who moments before had been pinned down with that team of officers under fire like Brandon, it was Officer Cook's second day on the job and that in itself was difficult, all I could think was that we had to take Giovanna to the hospital. immediately and you know what I wanted to do was help Bowls just drive as fast as we can and Frank is in the back seat and he's yelling at Giovanna to keep banging on the window and I hear Brandon in the front telling me, you know, keep going. doing. chest compressions and we were almost there brandy and I took Giovanna to the hospital at that point she had blood, she was bleeding everywhere like her whole body was covered in blood and we took her to the emergency room and I just remember screaming hey, I have a gunshot wound in the head where you want it we left it that was like the first moment you had a chance to take a breath and I looked down I'm covered covered in blue I looked at Brainer he said what are we? doing it let's go, we have to go back Shannon called the police someone is flying I got here someone is shooting a rifle in the hallway inside Mandalay Bay Steven shuck the engineer pinned down on the 32nd floor with the security guard hey-zeus campus have alerted Las Authorities headed to the location of the shooters.

Police fanned out throughout the hotel looking for other threats, waking up stunned guests in the process. Here you are hurt, clearly and minimize three by four. There's an active shooter in the hotel. Okay, stay locked in your room. Thank you. It has been 10 minutes since the first shot, at this point the shooter has fallen silent on the 32nd floor, shocked, and Campos has escaped to safety while police and security staff work to remove guests from their rooms. They fear the room service cart is

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of a bomb. you have police officers on the floor, what are they facing?

They discover it at 3-1. They get close enough to that room. There are cables. This camera. What are they getting into? Is there an IE D? Is there more than one person? how many people are there, we had nothing, come on, let's never evaluate the silicon, the more you realize, you're right, I have a shotgun, copy, we should be on the floor below you, one floor below, a SWAT team makes its weight is doing that, yes, it's phenomenal. work, by the way, the beers are on me later, okay, right next to the shooter's room, they figure out how to get in, force the locked door, turn off the light hiding their position and place an explosive strip in the suite door and then everyone in the how do I need to retreat all units retreat freeze freeze freeze find the shooter dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound weapons scattered prepare a second breach to clear the adjoining room in both rooms over a thousand bullet casings and an unimaginable cache of weapons, okay we did it, okay the news spreads throughout the hotel they broke into and then the swords went and then they were removed for the thousands of guests who have been sheltering in place For their release, we have no control over people's actions, but we.

Now here we are, a devastating national tragedy in Las Vegas that claimed 58 lives and left hundreds injured as a nation. It's as if we've become desensitized to the horror of mass shootings, but the Las Vegas massacre seemed different. The deadliest mass shooting in US history. From its perch high and far away, exposing the fact that no place is too far or too safe for bullets to hit for days, the festival grounds remain frozen in those moments of terror as authorities work to calculate the total of the disaster, it is difficult to understand what happened even to this day, the final toll is staggering: 58 dead and 850 wounded, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

After broadcasting, we returned and then our next job was to clear the concert venue and look for anyone who was still alive and hiding and then once that was done, our job for the rest of the morning was to stand next to some people who They were deceased until the coroner could come pick them up until approximately 8:00 in the morning, later that morning they returned to the hospital. hospital to check on Officer Brady Cook and the young woman they had brought. I said, let's go to trauma and see if we can get the name of the girl we brought in.

He was sure that she probably didn't survive. and we talked to a nurse and I said, hey, you know, we brought this girl in last night. She was, oh yeah, I remember her and they said she was like on the third or fourth floor of the ICU and I was surprised that she was still there. alive we went to the neural ICU and saw her lying there and going to the hospital and finding out that she was actually still alive was like sunshine on a dark day.I saw in their faces that they were hurt by this and that they could You know and I kept telling them You know they would be proud You know that you guys brought my wife here because of Frank and Giovanna Cals' ideas.

They are quick actions that made the difference between life and death. They know there's nothing but love for those two guys. Yeah, sure, I'm speechless. I don't know what words to say to you. I am grateful that they saved my life in the days after the attack. The dark portrait of the man at the center of the massacre came into focus. Shooter. 64 Year-old Stephen Patek, a retired accountant and real estate investor, at one point had a net worth of just over two million dollars, but the scale and scope of what he did and how he did it remained a mystery.

Security camera footage from September 25, 2017 captures Padic arriving at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino six days before the attack. He is a high roller, a regular customer of the hotel, and a very typical guest, in our estimation he was the No alarms lower risk type of individual who jumps from the paddock checkpoints to a suite on the 32nd floor and has been given the VIP treatment allowing him to carry his luggage up via a service elevator. He looks like a middle-aged guy with a lot of luggage walking up to a room in Mandalay Bay, a sprawling metropolis of restaurants, nightclubs and more than a hundred. thousand square feet of gambling, he is just one man in a sea of ​​thousands over the course of the next six days under the ever-

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ful eyes above the paddock move around the hotel where he is known for betting tens of thousands of dollars on the time.

He can be seen playing slot machines, making a purchase at the resort store and walking leisurely. He preferred to play video poker machines. Stay here. for hours and spends the nights here yes, literally, overnight during the course of his stay, he makes several trips to his home in Mesquite Nevada and brings, case after case, after case, luggage, 21 suitcases in total

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of weapons and ammunition, four. A few days into his stay, he checks into an adjoining room on the 32nd floor using his girlfriend's name. Authorities say he had already wired her $150,000 in the Philippines. Finally, the investigation shows that on October 1 he ordered room service and manipulated those surveillance cameras before bringing in a last batch of suitcases and locking herself in his room.

This will be the last known recording of Steven Paddock alive from the night of October 1st. The story of what happened in this 32nd floor hallway is only known. It has been talked about, it has never been seen until now. Hey, Zeus was coming here to check this door that had been left ajar by a babysitter who wanted to check on the kids across the hall. Pieces of wall are missing because they have been removed as evidence due to shrapnel and bullets. We were flying down this hallway shot from the other end and as we get closer to where the shooter was hiding, we can see more debris, more drywall, more soot behind this door, investigators would find 24 range weapons. from AR-15 with grips to AR-TEN with armor-piercing bullets that are legal to buy but illegal to sell, he fired more than a thousand rounds in ten minutes, but still had more than five thousand rounds of live ammunition that one person can in our country .

A country can go out and buy so many guns without breaking the law. One of those deaths is a challenge for law enforcement. A lot of people looked at Arsenal and said, how could one man bring so much Arsenal to one country? hotel my first response to that is that there are thousands of people walking through the front door, our back door from the parking lot with luggage, we say hello and welcome and our first priority is to welcome, we are happy to know that that is our first responsibility once I saw the Arsenal that was there.

It's disgusting since the attack. Mandalay Bay has implemented new security measures. There are clearly random checks on how well the dogs are used. I think it's typically a K-9 program to basically detect things that we are. concerned and authorities say casinos are now monitoring their visitors more closely. The casino industry is a fantastic partner for our city, the changes they have made with room controls and who they are allowing to have rooms with views of outdoor venues both on the Strip and downtown have been great partners for us, but now, more than a year later, we still don't know the answer to the big question of why, what do you definitively know about his motive?

Yeah nothing other places have had mass casualty incidents where shooters and gunmen have left manifestos in this case we just don't know the shooter may have taken his motive to the grave but MGM says the massacre was clearly an act of terrorism for which the company argues that they are not legally responsible. summer they made the controversial decision to sue more than a thousand victims of the Las Vegas attack citing a law passed after 9/11. MGM went to court arguing that they are not financially responsible because the security company they hired for the concert was federally certified against terrorists. attacks Las Vegas massacre survivors who are now speaking out after they are now being sued by the owner of the Mandalay Bay hotel.

The company, aware of the backlash, says MGM's lawsuit is simply a legal maneuver and is not intended as an insult to those who were injured or killed in the attack that received many negative headlines in recent months, what does it want the public know well? I think the main thing he wants us to know is that this is, this is a small town and it's a big family the community depends on Mandalay Bay we are a community serving a community and that is our focus we may regret what is happening but we want work together to look to the future and that there is hope in the lawsuits are currently on hold while MGM and the survivors involved are in mediation survivors like Rose Marie Melanson and her two daughters Stefan in Paige.

It's been a fantastic year for you. We first spoke to Melanson last year, just days after the attack. she shot him in the arm, but her mother Rose Marie's injuries were much worse when Paige and her sister were forced to leave her in the care of a stranger. Tell me what that bullet did to her body. Well, it came in from the upper right side of his chest and then went sideways and cut himself where his esophagus meets his stomach, broke some of his ribs, tore his intestines but hid his liver, his spleen and then when he was in life support in that first week, I was also suffering from kidney failure, my mom always has.

She was there for us and why she didn't respond to us, that was the hardest part for me as part of her own healing process. The Melanson sisters relied on the Las Vegas dance studio they owned. Dancing has always been an outlet for us and if we are happy those emotions arise through a four discomfort those emotions manifest that is our way of expressing ourselves on your first day back at work after the attack page leave those emotions exposed to through dance I chose the song rise up it felt so good Move again and it's very good to perform, you know what I had been feeling for the last three weeks, what did you feel at that moment?

Relief because the doctors had said that you knew it was going to be a long road, but my mom would make it later. After nearly a year in and out of the hospital, Rosemarie returns home for good, but the road to Rosemarie's full recovery will be long. Last month, the Justice Department allocated nearly $17 million to help those affected by the shooting. that could help families like the Melansons...what did you learn about your wife through all of this? How resilient she was how strong she was as a person. What did you learn about yourself during all of this?

I was stronger than I thought and what have you learned about your family? But they are stronger than they were when I gave them credit and it seems that everywhere you look, one year, in signs of that strength throughout the community, the city of Las Vegas came together almost like one big family and We still support each other others despite the tragic event that occurred, people still walk down the street, especially tourists on the Strip, they see us and thank us for everything we do, all the first responders, paramedics and EMTs for responding so quickly and also to the people.

The terrain is worth loading injured people into their vehicles and taking them to the hospital. I just thought that for me those are just my heroes. You know, you saved countless lives. What goes through your mind when you think I just did my job. I did the best I could and then some of these two unlikely heroes now returned to work carrying with them a solemn vow. I feel like I had a second chance. 58 people had it and I need to live a good life to honor that.