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By MICHAEL BALSAMO
\nAP<\/p>\n

Pressure mounted Wednesday for Las Vegas police to explain how quickly they reacted to what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history after two hotel employees reported a gunman spraying a hallway with bullets six minutes before he opened fire on a crowd at a musical performance.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revised the chronology of the shooting and said the gunman, Stephen Paddock, had shot a hotel security guard through the door of his suite and strafed a hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino with 200 rounds six minutes before he unleashed a barrage of bullets into the crowd.<\/p>\n

That account differed dramatically from the one police gave last week when they said Paddock ended his hail of fire on the crowd in order to shoot through his door and wound the unarmed guard, Jesus Campos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese people that were killed and injured deserve to have those six minutes to protect them,\u201d said Chad Pinkerton, an attorney for Paige Gasper, a California college student who was shot under the arm in the attack. \u201cWe lost those six minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maintenance worker Stephen Schuck told NBC News that he was checking out a report of a jammed fire door on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay when he heard gunshots and the hotel security guard who had been shot in the leg peeked out from an alcove and told him to take cover.<\/p>\n

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The body of a military veteran killed in the Las Vegas shooting is on its way home to California. (Oct. 9)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cIt was kind of relentless so I called over the radio what was going on,\u201d Schuck said. \u201cAs soon as the shooting stopped we made our way down the hallway and took cover again and then the shooting started again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gunshots can be heard in the background as Schuck used his radio to report the shooting, telling a dispatcher: \u201cCall the police, someone\u2019s firing a gun up here. Someone\u2019s firing a rifle on the 32nd floor down the hallway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campos also used his radio and possibly a hallway phone to call hotel dispatchers for help, police have said. It was unclear if and when the hotel relayed the reports of shots being fired to police.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas authorities did not respond to questions about whether hotel security or anyone else in the hotel called 911 to report the gunfire.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur officers got there as fast as they possibly could and they did what they were trained to do,\u201d Las Vegas assistant sheriff Todd Fasulo said previously.<\/p>\n

The parent company of the hotel has raised concerns that the revised timeline presented by police may be inaccurate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot be certain about the most recent timeline,\u201d said Debra DeShong, a spokeswoman for MGM Resorts International. \u201cWe believe what is currently being expressed may not be accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeShong declined to comment on a lawsuit filed Tuesday by lawyers for Gasper against the company, concert promoter, gunman\u2019s estate and the manufacturer of the \u201cbump stocks\u201d used by the gunman to help mimic a fully automatic firearm.<\/p>\n

Undersheriff Kevin McMahill earlier defended the hotel and said the encounter between Paddock and the security guard and maintenance man disrupted the gunman\u2019s plans, but he would not comment on the revised timeline.<\/p>\n

\u201cMGM and the people associated with the MGM and people involved that night at the event did a fantastic job,\u201d McMahill said.<\/p>\n

The six minutes wouldn\u2019t have been enough time for officers to stop the attack, said Ron Hosko, a former FBI assistant director who has worked on SWAT teams.<\/p>\n

Rather than rush in without a game plan, police would have been formulating the best response to the barricaded gunman, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe that\u2019s enough time to get the first patrolman onto the floor but the first patrolman is not going to go knock on that customer\u2019s door and say \u2018What\u2019s going on with 200 holes in the door?\u2019\u201d Hosko said.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writers Ken Ritter in Las Vegas, Josh Hoffner in Phoenix and Sadie Gurman in Washington contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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