Among the numerous eyewitness accounts shared since the Las Vegas massacre, many do not fit the official timeline, and some even present conflicting reports of multiple shooters, before, during and after the attack
VERO BEACH, FL (TruNews) The following three eyewitness testimonies have been recorded and shared by both local reporters and independent journalists, but little is known about the extent of inquiry the FBI and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) have taken to investigate these claims.
The first is an account by a Las Vegas resident named Stephanie, and was recorded this past Sunday by independent journalists Jason Goodman and Laura Loomer.
Stephanie was inside the concert area when the massacre began, and claims she heard a single shot go out before the main volley of gunfire and that she saw the women who was hit by that round.
If a single shot was fired by the lead suspect, Steven Paddock, prior to the audible beginning of what appeared to be near-automatic gunfire on the crowd, this may alter the official timeline for when the shooting began, which is currently being reported as 10:05 p.m. by officials.
Also, pending the release of ballistic findings by the FBI, this may indicate a different weapon was used to begin the onslaught by either Paddock or a separate gunman.
The second account is from a Canadian man named Jeff, and was recorded on Sunday, October 8th by the producers of a podcast called “The Confessionals."
Jeff was in Las Vegas with his wife on the night of the shooting and recounted hearing gunshots after 11:10 p.m. while inside the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens.
If gunshots were fired near the Bellagio hotel after 11:10 p.m., this would indicate that another lone gunman, or a separate squad of assailants, were operating in tandem, or separately, with Steven Paddock’s attack.
If the time of the alleged attack is correct, this alters the official timeline of events for October 1st because the shooting would have occurred 55 minutes after authorities report Steven Paddock stopped shooting from his 32nd floor Mandalay Bay hotel room.
The last account is from a Springfield, Colorado resident named Brianna Hendricks, and was recorded at 12:30 a.m. on Monday October 2nd.
Ms. Hendricks had traveled to Las Vegas with her mother to celebrate her 21st birthday and recounted hearing a hispanic women warn the concert crowd that everyone was going to die approximately 45 minutes before shooting.
Since her statements that night, Ms. Hendricks has walked back her assertion that the women was threatening the whole crowd, and now instead contents that the unknown hispanic women was directing her threat at a single women in the crowd.
In an interview with Buzzfeed, Damon Zumwalt, the CEO of the company, Contemporary Services Corporation (CSC), which was in charge of security for the Route 19 Harvest concert , claimed the initials reports surrounding this account were false.
Neither have contended however that it is false that the women yelled, “you’re going to die,” amid a crowd which would 45 minutes later become the victims to the largest mass shooting in U.S. History.
Ms. Hendricks and her mother also still maintain that the episode prompted their earlier departure from the concert, approximately 10-15 minutes before the mass shooting began.
Ultimately all these accounts should be easy to validate by the countless hours of high definition footage recorded that night by the tens of thousands of cameras installed along the Las Vegas strip.
This invaluable footage has since been undoubtably gathered and catalogued by the DHS threat fusion center operating at the center of the Las Vegas, the Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center (SNCTC), and should be made available to the public if investigators lack the man power, or will, to properly review it.