{"id":86462,"date":"2017-10-13T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T01:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86462"},"modified":"2017-10-13T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T02:05:07","slug":"las-vegas-security-guard-jesus-campos-disappears-moments-before-tv-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=86462","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas security guard Jesus Campos disappears moments before TV interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Greg Norman, Fox News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86463\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507913798955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86463\" class=\"wp-image-86463\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507913798955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507913798955.jpg 931w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507913798955-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507913798955-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-86463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus Campos, a Mandalay Bay security guard who was shot by Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock. (Fox News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Where in the world is Jesus Campos?<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The Mandalay Bay security guard shot by Stephen Paddock in the moments leading up to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was set to break his silence Thursday night with five television interviews, including one on Fox News, Campos&#8217; union president said.<\/p>\n<p>Except when the cameras were about to roll, and media gathered in the building to talk to him, Campos reportedly bolted, and, as of early Friday morning, it wasn&#8217;t immediately clear where he was.<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Media scrum tonight as we learn security officer shot in Vegas attack, Jesus Campos\u2019 whereabouts are unknown. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jk09tRlPsX\">pic.twitter.com\/Jk09tRlPsX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephanie Wash (@WashNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WashNews\/status\/918669203418128384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were in a room and we came out and he was gone,\u201d Campos&#8217; union president told reporters, according to ABC News\u2019 Stephanie Wash.<\/p>\n<p>Campos is represented by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, which did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity tweeted out that Campos, who was scheduled to appear on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/hannity\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Hannity&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Thursday night, \u201ccancelled\u201d his appearance.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/seanhannity\/status\/918662694277976065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2F2017%2F10%2F13%2Flas-vegas-security-guard-jesus-campos-disappears-moments-before-tv-interviews.html<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about Campos, with few pictures to emerge of the security guard and no apparent online footprint surfacing to provide details about one of the central figures in the mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>SPFPA President David L. Hickey told reporters new information about the timeline of the attack &#8212; for which Las Vegas Police and MGM Resorts have given conflicting accounts \u2013 doesn\u2019t dispute Campos is still a hero for saving a maintenance worker and possibly stopping additional shots, Wash reported.<\/p>\n<p>MGM Resorts issued a statement Thursday to \u201ccorrect some of the misinformation that has been reported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Tucker&#8217;s Thoughts: It has now been nearly two weeks since the Las Vegas shooting and, unbelievably, nobody can answer even the most basic questions about what happened. #Tucker<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5607831213001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio,\u201d the statement said. \u201cMetro officers were together with armed Mandalay Bay security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio. These Metro officers and armed Mandalay Bay security officers immediately responded to the 32nd floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent police timeline, provided Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Paddock fired about 200 bullets from his room at the resort starting at 9:59 p.m. on Oct. 1 &#8212; the volley in which Campos was hit &#8212; and then began opening fire on the music festival crowd six minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Police had earlier said the opposite \u2013 that Campos was struck after Paddock started firing out the window.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two weeks into the investigation, authorities have yet to disclose a motive for Paddock\u2019s attack, which left 58 dead.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/10\/13\/las-vegas-security-guard-jesus-campos-disappears-moments-before-tv-interviews.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/10\/13\/las-vegas-security-guard-jesus-campos-disappears-moments-before-tv-interviews.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}