Sheriff: Hotel guard shot before barrage

In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, personal belongings and debris litters the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas. On Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, gunman Stephen Paddock carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, leaving Americans try to come to terms with yet another mass murder.
In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, personal belongings and debris litters the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas. On Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, gunman Stephen Paddock carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, leaving Americans try to come to terms with yet another mass murder.

LAS VEGAS -- Law enforcement authorities on Monday said a hotel security guard was shot by Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock before he opened fire on concertgoers.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo had previously said the guard was shot after Paddock fired at the country music festival, and that the guard's arrival in the hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel may have caused Paddock to stop firing.

It was not immediately clear why the timeline of the shooting changed a week later and what its effect could be on the investigation.

On Monday, Lombardo said security guard Jesus Campos was in a hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel responding to a report of an open door when he heard drilling from Paddock's room.

Paddock, who had installed three cameras to monitor the approach to his suite, opened fire through the door, spraying 200 shots down the hall and wounding the guard, who alerted other security officials, Lombardo said.

Information for this article was contributed by Michael Balsamo and Andrew Dalton of The Associated Press.

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