Lawsuit Questions Response Time in Vegas Concert Mass Shooting Attack
LAS VEGAS — Attorneys who filed a lawsuit over the response to the Las Vegas carnage question why police and hotel and concert security officers didn’t act more quickly to stop the killer.
Attorney Chad Pinkerton said authorities “should have done a better job and that’s what this lawsuit is about.”
The attorneys held a news conference Wednesday together with families of wounded in the Oct. 1 gunfire that killed 58 concert-goers and injured hundreds more.
The lawyers want to know why six minutes passed without a police department reply from the time killer Stephen Paddock attacked a hall of the Mandalay Bay hotel with 200 shots until he started killing individuals at the concert.
They also are puzzled about how Paddock was able to bring more than 20 firearms into his room without being noticed.
