with so many eyes on everything there, and since the shooter was there for several days...

[NRaleighLiberal]

I suspect they must have video of him coming and going with parcels/packages over the days - hopefully some clues to help fill in a pretty empty picture of who he was and why he did it.

I was just in the car and in the NPR coverage, they replayed the dumpster's words.

One sentence struck me as odd - thanking first responders (glad he did that) - but then he said and I don't have the exact words - but acknowledging the police did great locating the gunner after the first bullets were fired.

Just listening to the few video and audio clips on the event, with the automatic weapon fire, there had to have been hundreds of bullets fired in each shooting span - and didn't they locate the gunner because the smoke from his guns set off the fire alarm?

No disrespect meant for those involved in locating the shooter, but 58 deaths and more than 500 injuries aren't stopping the shooter after the first few bullets. It certainly was a tough task given the logistics of the crime. But....Pretty tone deaf part of the speech, I thought.

[lapfog_1]

1. news is reporting over 1 hour elasped

between the first CALL reporting shots fired and the police entering the shooter's room at Mandalay Bay.

Not exactly what I would call stellar response time.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Awful for the dumpster to include that line in his speech. Insensitive.

[Lee-Lee]

7. Given everything it's actually not bad

They had to locate him, mobilize a SWAT team, travel to the hotel, get up to the room and force entry. Typically SWAT teams are cops with regular duties and shifts who also volunteer and train for that duty, so they had to all drop what they were doing on or off duty, gear up, travel to the scene, make it up to the floor and make entry.

Since he had stopped firing by that point rushing in with active shooter protocol takes a back seat to a more deliberate entry by a SWAT team.

[lapfog_1]

8. Las Vegas (again according to the news) has a full time SWAT team 24 x 7

so... call comes in of someone shooting at a concert. Dispatch should have been trained to immediately call SWAT.

15 min to assemble and travel to the venue (Just a guess, I lived in LV for a while and travel to anywhere on the strip, even using the back streets, can be problematic). Another 15 min to identify the likely floor and rooms...

So... 30 min more to find the exact room?

I'm not a SWAT officer or a police officer, but that response seems slow to me.

[Lee-Lee]

9. It may be likely

That they were in the hallways outside much faster but since the shooting had stopped were moving with more caution at that point- but ready to go faster if shooting resumed.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. I was thinking also muzzle flash

Cops on ground surely saw that.

[lapfog_1]

5. I'm sure they did... from the first calls that I've heard from cell phone captures

The security people at the concert knew the shooting was coming from the upper floors at Mandalay Bay.

But you try to look at the hotel and guess which floor... it's not that easy.

Apparently, when SWAT arrived they first went to floor 29 and then worked their way up to floor 32.

[HAB911]

4. Unverified: The gunfire set off the smoke detector in the room

is how they found him

Unverified as far as I know, heard on the intertubes

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. heard on a few radio reports this AM as well

[GeorgeGist]

10. I'm more interested in the victims lives.

He can burn in hell.