![]() ![]() I knew that SWAT had deployed snipers also. Joshua Bitsko if he went to the window to look out, Bitsko replied, “No. On Sunday, October 8, one week after the Massacre three of the LVMPD officers who had made entry into Paddock’s suite were interviewed on CBS’ 60 Minutes. We know that LVMPD snipers were deployed before the Strike Team made entry because of a comment made by one of the officers on the entry team. The police radio traffic from that night confirms that at least one LVMPD Air Unit was airborne:Ĭontrol Air 5, “we’re getting multiple reports from McCarron Tower now that there are multiple people running across the active runways.” Then later, Control Air 5: “we have been able to clear all the lower roofs, there are employees on the upper roof, there’s like a break room up there. The lower roofs on the east side have all been cleared.” The BPE was told that the LVMPD sniper inside the police helicopter had a rifle with optics capable of looking in the room and asked the pilot to get as close as possible to the broken-out window in Paddock’s 32 ndfloor suite however the pilot refused because he was unsure if anyone in the room would start firing again and endanger the aircraft. Law enforcement sources who spoke to the Baltimore Post-Examiner stated that on the night of October 1, 2017, after Stephen Paddock stopped firing and prior to the LVMPD Strike Team entering the suite, one hour after the last shots were fired, an LVMPD SWAT Team sniper deployed from a police helicopter. LVMPD SWAT Team sniper deployed in police helicopter The Baltimore Post-Examiner was told that on New Year’s Eve 2017, two months after the October 1 Massacre, the FBI Hostage Rescue Team was deployed in Las Vegas along with the FBI and LVMPD SWAT Teams as a precautionary measure. in response to terrorist incidents, hostage situations, and major criminal threats. The team is prepared to deploy within four hours of notification anywhere in the U.S. ![]() The FBI Las Vegas Division has a SWAT Team consisting of special agents and supervisors assigned to the Las Vegas Division, but unlike local FBI SWAT Teams the Hostage Rescue Team is headquartered in Quantico, Virginia and HRT members are assigned full time to the team. An FBI HRT sniper inside an FBI helicopter hovering over the Las Vegas Strip successfully made the shot and hit the mannequin.Īccording to the law enforcement sources who spoke to the Baltimore Post-Examiner, then Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie was unaware that the maneuver was going to be part of the exercise and was livid when he found out what happened. Another ranking member of the LVMPD at the time, according to one source, stated that they would no longer train for such scenarios and if an incident similar to the training exercise should happen in the future they would accept liability for the outcome. Sometime after the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas closed in May of 2011 and prior to renovations to transform the property into the SLS Resort, the property was used for a training exercise conducted by FBI and LVMPD personnel.ĭuring the training exercise, a mannequin was placed inside one of the high-rise tower rooms near a window, to simulate an attacker. On that night Stephen Paddock fired approximately 1100 rounds of ammunition from his 32 ndfloor suite windows down into a crowd of 22,000 concert-goers killing 58 and wounding over 400. LAS VEGAS - A training exercise conducted by the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and attended by members of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was eerily similar to the sniper attack from an elevated position that occurred on Octoat the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, according to law enforcement sources who spoke to the Baltimore Post-Examiner. ![]()
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