© Sandy Lopez / Las Vegas Review-JournalA sign warning members of the news media not to enter Jesus Campos' home in east Las Vegas hangs on a gate on Friday, Oct. 13, 2017.
Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who first encountered mass shooter Stephen Paddock,
vanished Thursday afternoon hours before planned interviews with five TV networks, his union president said Friday.
"The union doesn't have any idea where he's at at this time," said David Hickey, international president of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, which represents security guards at Mandalay Bay.
Hickey said he had been with Campos for the last four days, along with another union member, helping him prepare for media interviews. He said Campos was staying in a Las Vegas-area hotel suite, with a living room and an adjoining bedroom.
On Thursday at about 1 p.m., Hickey said he and the union's local president took a meeting with MGM officials in the bedroom, while Campos, the other union member and a security guard hired by MGM to protect Campos waited in the living room.
© SPFPAJesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who first encountered mass shooter Stephen Paddock, is shown in an image provided by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America. Campos was given the "SPFPA Hero Award" for bravery in the line of duty.
At 2 p.m., when Hickey emerged from the meeting, he said Campos and the other people were gone.
Hickey said he called and texted the other union member. The only response he received is that Campos was being taken to a Quick Care health clinic.
Since then, he indicated Friday afternoon, he has heard nothing about the trio's whereabouts.
"It's a strange story," Hickey said. "But it is what it is."
Local USPFPA President Dennis Lang did not respond to multiple calls from the
Review-Journal on Friday.
Hickey said Campos was scheduled to do the Sean Hannity show on Fox News at about 6 p.m. Thursday from a local TV studio. After that, he was going to do interviews with NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN.
Hickey said he is not concerned for Campos' safety, just his health. When asked if he thought MGM had anything to do with Campos' disappearance, Hickey simply noted that the corporation was taking care of him.
In a statement,
MGM Resorts International said it had nothing to do with the cancellation.
"Jesus Campos is a hero who has been credited with saving lives and being a part of interrupting a shooting rampage. MGM Resorts could not be more proud of him," it said. "The notion that we are in any way preventing him from telling his story is absurd. When it comes to media appearances by Jesus, our only concern has been and will continue to be Jesus."
Police in Las Vegas have said Campos first encountered Paddock when he checked on a door alarm on the 32nd floor and heard the sound of drilling. He was shot in the leg as he neared Paddock's hotel suite, they say.
"This was a remarkable effort by a brave and remarkable man," Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said on Oct. 6.
Campos' house in the Sunrise Manor neighborhood in east Las Vegas has been staked out by reporters since he was identified as the guard who encountered Paddock on the 32nd floor of the hotel on Oct. 1. Piles of business cards from reporters are often stacked on top of his mailbox.
On Scene Investigation & Security Inc. was hired to provide 24-hour security at the home. A white truck is often parked outside or near the house, manned by security officers who intercept any strangers who approach the house.
A security guard named Troy, who declined to provide his last name, said CNN, Fox and various other local media outlets were camped outside the home for several days, typically arriving at 8:30 a.m. and leaving around 6 p.m.
Troy declined to say how many guards had been hired, who hired them or whether Campos was in the house.
Hickey said Campos was eager to tell his story and wanted to get it out in one day. "He's got a great story to tell," Hickey said.
Comment: Paddock is dead. Paddock is the lone gunman. Paddock organized it all by himself.
SO WHY DOES CAMPOS NEED SECURITY OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE 24/7?
Update (Oct. 15): Campos's union rep made the following
statement regarding Campos's disappearance:
David Hickey, the president of the Security Police and Fire Professionals Union, is representing Campos and had been preparing with him for four days leading up to Thursday, the day he had a laundry list of interviews scheduled.
Hickey said: "For the past four days he's been preparing. Thursday we had a meeting with MGM officials, and after that meeting was over we talked about the interviews, we went to a private area, and when we came out, Mr. Campos was gone."
According to KVVU-TV, Hickey later received a text message informing him that Campos was at a "quick clinic."
"Right now I'm just concerned where my member is, and what his condition is. It's highly unusual. I'm hoping everything is OK with him and I'm sure MGM or the union will let [the media] know when we hear something," Hickey said.
Hickey told the news station that the interviews were Campos' idea, explaining that Campos wanted to tell his story because he thought it would help him cope with the incident.
Update (Oct. 17): Laura Loomer has another
scoop: Campos shared a social security number with "Jesus A. Quintero":
"Sources in intelligence have provided me with MGM security guard Jesus Campos's comprehensive intelligence report," Loomer told GotNews. "The report reveals that Jesus Campos shared a social security number with an individual named 'Jesus A Quintero.'"
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According to Loomer, this latest piece of information could shed light on Campos' employment status, and expose reasons for the hotel's lack of transparency. "A shared SSN is a very strong indicator that Jesus Campos is an illegal immigrant, and if true, it means MGM Resorts International was intentionally and illegally paying a foreign national to guard one of the most important tourist sites in the world," Loomer explained.
Loomer believes this revelation could be important for understanding both the ever-changing timeline and Campos' bizarre interview cancellations. "This shocking new exclusive revelation could explain Jesus Campos's recent disappearance and the collective silence from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, FBI, and MGM regarding the status of his employment, his apparent lack of legitimate licensing as a security guard in the state of Nevada, as well as the changing timeline regarding his whereabouts the night of the shooting on October 1st," Loomer said.
Update (Oct. 18): Today, Ellen will air her interview with Campos and Stephen Schuck. In the clips provided to the
LV Review-Journal, we learn:
Campos reviewed the events of the shooting, recounting how he was alerted to check on a door that was ajar. He said he was on the stairwell going from the 31st to the 32nd floor and came upon a door that was blocked and wouldn't open. So he rerouted through a hallway and called security dispatch to get an engineer to check on the blocked door. The worker summoned would be Schuck.
Campos said he then heard drilling sounds and believed the slamming of the heavy door he passed through to get to the 32nd floor alerted Paddock to his presence. Paddock shot through the door and hit Campos in the leg.
"I was walking down and heard rapid fire," he said. "And at first I took cover. I felt a burning sensation. I went to go lift my pant leg up and I saw the blood. That's when I called it in on my radio that shots have been fired.
"And I was going to say that I was hit, but I got on ... my cellphone just to clear radio traffic so they could coordinate the rest of the call."
Schuck said he came to the 32nd floor from a higher floor via a service elevator and rounded the corner. Campos was toward the end of the hallway, but Schuck said he didn't know that at first.
"I thought I saw someone hop out of the cubby, and I kept walking," Schuck said. "Once I got more than halfway is when I saw Jesus and I started to hear shooting."
Shuck said he thought the sound was a jackhammer at first but knew that was unlikely. He also thought the shooting sound was outside and not in the hallway yet.
Campos leaned out and said, "Take cover, take cover," Schuck said.
"He yelled at me, and within milliseconds, if he didn't say that, I would have got hit. I wasn't fully in cover, and (shots) were passing behind my head and I could feel the pressure."
Campos said a female guest came out of another room's door and he told her to go back in because it wasn't safe. Campos told Schuck to stay back and take cover. More rounds from the shooter's guns followed, Campos said.
Campos seemed to acknowledge that he wouldn't revisit the events of Oct. 1 after his interview with DeGeneres.
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His neighbors haven't seen him in a few days. No "Jesus Campos" is registered as a guest at any MGM properties on the Strip.
And while calls to his listed telephone numbers continue to go unanswered, Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield said Campos is "fully cooperating with the investigation."
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MGM said Campos is on paid leave while he continues to heal, adding that he has access to counseling options "that are available to all employees injured in the shooting."
According to
True Pundit "sources", the pre-recorded interview was vetted by MGM, and Campos's gag order has now been reactivated. As they put it, "No one on the MGM or FBI side wants Campos seriously cross examined by actual journalists or attorneys. Hence, the armed guard parked outside his house. He is the glue holding the FBI's flaky narrative of the shooting together. And it is certainly flaky."
The LVMPD
blamed Laura Loomer for Campos going "missing".
Officer Larry Hatfield, a spokesman for the LVMPD, contends that Campos is not missing, but rather just hiding from Loomer's hard-hitting journalism. "Let me put it this way," Hatfield told WND, "If you were getting bombarded by media attention from people like Laura Loomer, it's your choice not to disclose your location."
Moreover, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, who has been spearheading the investigation into the deadliest mass shooting in American history, has blocked Loomer on Twitter:
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"The LVMPD and FBI are trying to make sure that what happened in Vegas stays in Vegas," Loomer told GotNews. "Not only are they participating in a full-blown misinformation campaign, which I proved through my exclusive report about the official timeline discrepancies, but they are also concealing the true identity and status of 'hero security guard' Jesus Campos from the public."
Furthermore, Loomer strongly took issue with the LVMPD's implication that she is a security threat to Campos. "It's rather absurd for the LVMPD to insinuate that Jesus Campos needs special protection from a petite unarmed female investigative reporter when they have stationed an armed guard outside of his residence, while leaving Stephen Paddock's residence open and vulnerable for robberies," Loomer said, referring to the strange break-in at Paddock's house the weekend after the massacre. "It's an easy scapegoat for the LVMPD and FBI to continue their false narrative that Jesus Campos is a victim by portraying me as a threat."
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"Instead of taking cheap shots at a female journalist who is clearly better at investigating than agents on the ground, why doesn't the LVMPD focus on how Campos was able to serve as an uncredentialed security guard for a major casino conglomerate?" Loomer asked. "I'm confident that LVMPD is threatened by my investigation, given the fact that they banned me from the last press conference and Sheriff Lombardo blocked me on Twitter following my report regarding Campos's suspicious use of an out-of-state SSN that's tied to two Hispanic males. Given the fact that LVMPD had already lied to the public about the investigation, I wouldn't be surprised if Campos was placed into some form of legal protection to keep him and his family from talking to the public. They better buckle up because there's a new sheriff in town."
Yesterday, Campos's union president and "media handler" David Hickey's house and office were allegedly raided by federal agents in a federal corruption and racketeering probe. The union has a history of corruption; True Pundit lists
15 criminal actions against the union going back to 2006.
Comment: Paddock is dead. Paddock is the lone gunman. Paddock organized it all by himself.
SO WHY DOES CAMPOS NEED SECURITY OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE 24/7?
Update (Oct. 15): Campos's union rep made the following statement regarding Campos's disappearance: Update (Oct. 17): Laura Loomer has another scoop: Campos shared a social security number with "Jesus A. Quintero": Update (Oct. 18): Today, Ellen will air her interview with Campos and Stephen Schuck. In the clips provided to the LV Review-Journal, we learn: According to True Pundit "sources", the pre-recorded interview was vetted by MGM, and Campos's gag order has now been reactivated. As they put it, "No one on the MGM or FBI side wants Campos seriously cross examined by actual journalists or attorneys. Hence, the armed guard parked outside his house. He is the glue holding the FBI's flaky narrative of the shooting together. And it is certainly flaky."
The LVMPD blamed Laura Loomer for Campos going "missing". Yesterday, Campos's union president and "media handler" David Hickey's house and office were allegedly raided by federal agents in a federal corruption and racketeering probe. The union has a history of corruption; True Pundit lists 15 criminal actions against the union going back to 2006.