KATE TAYLOR
\nBusiness Insider<\/p>\n
MGM Resorts, the parent company of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, shut down police officials’ allegation that there was a six-minute gap between when the first shot was fired on hotel premises and when security was called during the Las Vegas shooting.<\/p>\n
“The 9:59 p.m. PDT time was derived from a Mandalay Bay report manually created after the fact without the benefit of information we now have,” the company said in a statement on Thursday. “We are now confident that the time stated in this report is not accurate.”<\/p>\n
According to the statement,\u00a0shots were 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.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Stephen Paddock shot Campos, a security guard, through the door of his hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay. Campos, who was hit in the leg, notified security.\u00a0Police officers and hotel security officers immediately responded to Campos’ report on the radio that shots had been fired, according to MGM.<\/p>\n People\u00a0have been pressing police and the Mandalay Bay\u00a0this week\u00a0to explain an apparent six-minute gap<\/a>\u00a0in authorities’ latest timeline of the Las Vegas shooting.<\/p>\n A US official told The Associated Press on Thursday that the hotel did not notify police of any gunshots until after Paddock had opened fire on the crowd.\u00a0According to officers’ timelines of the event, that\u00a0would mean there were roughly six minutes between when the first shot was fired in the Mandalay Bay and when police were summoned.<\/p>\n A lawsuit\u00a0filed Monday by\u00a0<\/a>Paige Gasper<\/a>\u00a0cited\u00a0this apparent gap as evidence of the hotel’s “negligence” in preventing the mass shooting that killed 59 people and wounded nearly 500.\u00a0The complaint\u00a0accuses the Mandalay Bay of failing to “timely respond or otherwise act” in response to\u00a0Campos’\u00a0shooting, something that MGM now refutes.<\/p>\n MGM’s statement concludes: “We will continue to work with law enforcement as we have from the first moments of this tragedy as they work toward developing an accurate timeline.”<\/p>\n