By Heba Elsherif  |  June 5, 2018

Category: Consumer News

Mandalay Bay Victims Detail Witnessed Accounts in Newly Released DocumentsMandalay Bay victims of the Oct. 1, 2017 Route 91 Festival shooting saw one of the nation’s deadliest shooting rampages in recent history. Newly released documents detail the rants made by the gunman who opened fire at the crowd of 22,000 concertgoers, firing more than 1,100 rounds from his 32nd hotel floor room at the Mandalay Bay.

Mandalay Bay victims include 58 dead and hundreds more that were wounded following the shooting. He fired the shots for an astounding 10 minutes before he killed himself as police moved in the hotel room.

The newly released documents were released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police just after media outlets, including the Associated Press, filed suit for their release. The new detailed documents show no witness names.

According to reports, the newly released documents were not made public until two weeks after the release of a body camera video from police who raged into Paddock’s hotel room.

According to the documents, a Mandalay Bay victims woman detailed her account of how she thought she witnessed firecrackers instead of gunfire during the massacre until she saw a man fall to the ground with open “lifeless” eyes, she says. Another woman detailed her account of how she refused to leave a friend that had been shot dead and whose lips had turned blue until a group of men helped lift her up and guide her to safety near a fence.

Other detailed accounts from the Mandalay Bay victims include one by a woman who said that she decided to play dead after she had been wounded, when she saw a woman near her be shot five times. Another account by a woman says that during the massacre, “A good guy just grabbed me and said, ‘Love, you’re gonna die here if I leave you here.”

The detailed accounts by Mandalay Bay victims also include statements from people who say that they had previously heard the gunman slam the government.

One woman says that she overheard who she thought was the gunman speaking to another man a few days prior to the deadly shooting at a restaurant in Las Vegas. In her statements made to police officers, she says the gunman seemed enraged about armed standoffs that occurred in the 1990s in both Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas.

Another detailed account by a man says that he declined the gunman’s request to convert his semiautomatic weapon to an automatic gun.

He says the gunman had told him that, “Somebody has to wake up the American public and get them to arm themselves.” And that, “Sometimes sacrifices have to be made.”

This is in addition to a statement that the gunman made to which he is claimed to have said that “temporary communities set up after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were a prelude to ‘kickin down dooors’ and seizing guns from citizens.”

Thus far, police say that they think the gunman acted independently. However, a definitive motive for the massacre has yet to be found.

If you or a loved one were inside the concert gates when the shooting started (including concert staff) and suffered PTSD or a physical injury as a result, you deserve compensation — and you deserve an attorney who will fight to prove your injuries. See if you have a case by filling out the form on this page for a free, confidential evaluation by a Las Vegas shooting attorney. If you qualify, you will be contacted to discuss your options during a free, no-obligation consultation.

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