California attorney blames cowardly police for Stephen Paddock’s reign of terror
LAS VEGAS — California attorney Catherine Lombardo told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight show on Thursday that the wife of her client would be alive today, if Las Vegas Police Officer Cordell Hendrex confronted gunman Stephen Paddock whose gunfire rained down on the Route 91 Music Festival on October 1, 2017
Lombardo (no relation to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo) is a former prosecutor and police commissioner who is representing several Californians who were victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. The Baltimore Post-Examiner was the first to report on the cowardly acts of Hendrex and security officers as well as the coverup of what really happened in the worst mass shooting in modern history of the United States that left dozens dead and more than 400 injured.
Hendrex, along with Officer Elif Varsin, his trainee and three armed Mandalay Bay security managers were too scared to confront Paddock. They remained on the 31st floor of the hotel listening to the gunfire for several minutes that was originating from the 32nd floor as Hendrex’s and Varsin’s police radios broadcast the horror occurring at the concert venue.
It was not until the gunfire stopped that the armed contingent entered the stairwell where they remained for over 30 minutes until the arrival of other officers.
Carlson said, “This is the second time in several months that we have seen police officers stand there while a mass murder takes place. I’m very sympathetic to cops, they take a lot of crap, but I think we deserve an explanation for why this keeps happening.”
On February 14 of this year, 17 persons were killed, and over a dozen others injured when gunman Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. A Broward County Deputy Sheriff, Scot Peterson, remained outside the building as the shots were being fired and failed to confront the gunman. Peterson, who was called a coward, was suspended without pay the following day but he immediately retired.
“I have a client whose spouse was shot and killed inside the venue during the 12thand final burst of gunfire,” Lombardo said.
Doug authored over 135 articles on the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas Massacre, more than any other single journalist in the country. He investigates stories on corruption, law enforcement and crime. Doug is a US Army Military Police Veteran, former police officer, deputy sheriff and criminal investigator. Doug spent 20 years in the hotel/casino industry as an investigator and then as Director of Security and Surveillance. He also spent a short time with the US Dept. of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration. In 1986 Doug was awarded Criminal Investigator of the Year by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia for his undercover work in narcotics enforcement. In 1992 and 1993 Doug testified in court that a sheriff’s office official and the county prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence during the 1988 trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of his wife. Doug’s testimony led to a judge’s decision to order the release of the man from prison in 1992 and awarded him a new trial, in which he was later acquitted. As a result of Doug breaking the police “blue wall of silence,” he was fired by the county sheriff. His story was featured on Inside Edition, Current Affair and CBS News’ “Street Stories with Ed Bradley”. In 1992 after losing his job, at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Doug infiltrated a group of men who were plotting the kidnapping of a Dupont fortune heir and his wife. Doug has been a guest on national television and radio programs speaking on the stories he now writes as an investigative journalist.