After getting hit with a bullet fragment Mandalay Bay Security Officer Jesus Campos said, ‘I’m going to try to use it to my advantage’
LAS VEGAS — MGM Resorts International employee Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay Hotel security officer who was on duty on the night of the October 1,2017 Las Vegas Massacre told a family member after the shooting that he was going to try to use getting shot to his advantage.
Campos, who by his own admission to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detective during his recorded interview, stated that he discovered the bracket that was drilled into the Mandalay Bay Hotel 32nd floor fire stairwell door with screws, prior to Stephen Paddock opening fire.
Campos told the LVMPD detective that he then heard drilling noises coming from deep inside Paddock’s suite, Room 32-135, and walked away without investigating the suspicious noises.
When Campos appeared on ABC News’ Nightline on December 18, 2018 he said, “This was the last call of my night. I was home free after this.”
I wonder if that’s why Campos failed to do his job when he didn’t stop to investigate the suspicious “drilling” noises inside Paddock’s suite after he had just observed the bracket that was screwed into the fire exit door.
Two plus two equals four.
Or is there some other reason yet unknown?
Campos’ former brother-in-law, Luis Castro, provided the Baltimore Post-Examiner with screenshots of text messages between Campos and himself, sent after the October 1, 2017 Massacre.
Castro told the Baltimore Post-Examiner that Campos’ nickname is “YuYu.”
The text messages are as follows:
Castro: Heard you got shot man.
Campos: Yea. Tupac back.
Castro: You good though bro?!
Campos: Yea I’m good.
Castro: Do you get to keep the bullet?
Campos: idk [I don’t know] if they want it for evidence.
Castro: You better keep it.
Campos: Frame it y todo [and all].
Castro: Put it on a necklace.
Campos: HAHA.
Castro: Glad you’re okay though bro. You saw a bunch of people get shot?
Campos: Na I didn’t I was in the tower.
Castro: Damn put this on your resume. You’ll become sheriff.
Campos: Lmao [laughing my ass off] swat.
Castro: They talkn bout u on the news.
Campos: Yeah. Yea I was told.
Castro: You better get some compensation lol. You gonna go on TV?
Campos: Maybe.
Castro: I’ll let you borrow my Fuck Trump shirt.
Campos: Na I’m keeping it humble I don’t like him but I’m trying to use it to my advantage.
Castro: Wear the Mexican flag like a cape.
Campos: Yea maybe.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s final criminal investigative report on the Las Vegas Massacre:
“Security Officer Campos heard what he described as a rapid drilling sound coming from Room 32-135 after he hung up the phone [in the 32nd floor vestibule that leads to the fire exit door].”
The Baltimore Post-Examiner reported in a previous story that that statement in the LVMPD final report conflicts with what Mandalay Bay Hotel Engineering Supervisor Shannon Alsbury told the police during his interview. Alsbury said that Campos told him he heard the drilling noises while on the phone with him, before Campos hung up.
“As he walked down the 100 Wing hallway, Campos heard what he described as automatic gunfire coming from the area of room 32-135 and realized he had been shot in the left calf. He took cover in the alcove of rooms 32-122 and 32-124 and utilized both his cellular phone and radio to notify his dispatch he was shot.”
“Security Officer Campos advised he was shot with a BB or pellet gun.”
That statement continues to bother me. It makes no sense. Campos heard automatic fire, then thinks he was shot with a BB or pellet gun?
The LVMPD final investigative report indicates “Campos was struck in the left calf with a bullet fragment.”
Just to clarify what the LVMPD wrote in their final investigative report.
When Campos called in over his radio he did not say that he was shot at that time.
Campos said over his radio in a very calm and relaxed voice that shots were coming from Room 32-135.
He later called into security dispatch by cellphone and it was at that time when he told them he was shot.
The LVMPD nor MGM Resorts International, the owners of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, have yet to release Campos’ cell phone records to the public which should indicate the time he called in. The LVMPD report makes note that cellphone records were used to establish their timeline, in part.
As for Campos’ remark that he was going to try using getting shot to his advantage, it was disgraceful, taking into consideration that the October 1 tragedy left 58 people dead and almost 500 others wounded by Paddock’s gunfire.
I guess it did turn out to his advantage though. Just read our December 9, 2018 Baltimore Post-Examiner story, “EXCLUSIVE: MGM Resorts International buys Mandalay Bay Security Officer Jesus Campos’ silence with all expenses paid trips, condos in exchange for NDA.”
As for the victims and the families of those who were killed during the Las Vegas Massacre, they have yet to be compensated for their injuries and loss.
While those who were affected both physically and emotionally from the tragedy, which was entirely preventable and foreseeable, they still anguish in their pain as MGM Resorts International broadens its multi-billion dollar business empire across the country and the world.
MGM spokesperson Debra Deshong did not respond to the Baltimore Post-Examiner’s request for comment. Jesus Campos did not return our calls.
Silence seems to be a common thing in this case.
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 1991 and 1992 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. Catch Doug’s Podcast: @dougpoppa1
All who died were shot according to final Coroners report.
What was being ‘drilled’ deep inside the room? The bracket was already in place. The peep hole camera didn’t need a hole did it? Why is this not addressed in Metro’s report?
Where is the ‘shrapnel’ from a rifle round – or was it a BB or pellet? Officer Clarkson also got hit by shrapnel – scratched on the neck by the descriptions given. Was that shrap/evidence maintained?
Sheriff Lomardo once said ‘hundreds’ of round had been fired through the door…in reality, there are about 30 holes…so was the door open?
How did Trump’s name come up? Was there talk that this tragedy was supposed to send an anti-gun message?
And on and on and on…Thanks goodness Doug Poppa will get some answers!
How many died from gun shots and how many trampled to death in the stampede? It will come out that many victims were not even shot and they were crushed to death and at least one female ran out of concert and into the traffic and was struck by a car and killed. http://bit.ly/CBDFlowerWR