Transcripts For CSPAN Las Vegas 9pm ET Briefing 20171004 : c

Transcripts For CSPAN Las Vegas 9pm ET Briefing 20171004

Post that on the page as well. After this incident, one of the most striking visuals in addition to the absolute carnage was the sheer amount of personal items left behind as people fled from the terror. One of the biggest items left concertvehicles of the goers. There is a dirt lot on the street between alibaba and mentally road. Road. Mandalay there are approximately 150 vehicles there. Those cars can now be picked up by meeting officers on the cobalt. F reno and we will have officers permanently stationed there to as gort you to your vehicle. We ask those who have patiently waited to get their vehicles back to meet our officers and bring your identification so we can match you back to your vehicle. The sheriff and the Previous Press conference with us they number of questions by you. I understand the insatiable appetite of the media, you want some answers. I am going to try to answer a couple questions you asked what i am also going to just make it very clear i need some patience from you. This investigation is a long time from being concluded. We recently went down to mandalay bay, i can tell you we are days away from processing that room. We are getting very close to the completion of processing the site. We have a significant time left there as well, however the southbound portion of las vegas boulevard is now completely open. We are also working diligently as we speak. I believe we just opened two of the northbound lanes and the completion of the northbound lanes should occur sometime this evening. So bearing in mind the investigation is continuing and i do not have a lot of answers for you yet, i clearly understand nobody wants answers as to why this happened more than the victims family and the police. We have responsibility to get it right and that is why we are. Oing to take time at best, interesting reporting about how long the shooting lasted and how long it took to get into the room. The first question, how long did the actual shooting last. The first call came into our dispatch center at 10 08 p. M. About shots being fired. The suspect i can tell you now he fired off and on for somewhere between 9 11 minutes. We know 9 11 minutes. We know firing by the suspect stopped at 10 19. The first minute the police were aware of shots being fired at 10 08 p. M. And it stopped at 10 19 p. M. And that is a remarkable response by this police department. Another question, how long before Swat Team Member descended on the suspect room. You heard over 17 72 minutes and ask why so long. As i mentioned to you, as the ship mentioned previously, we had officers working another event at the mandalay bay who heard the shooting and took it upon themselves to form into a team, entered the stairwell ascending the floors and a vacuum hotel guests. These what time had to arrive the swat team had to arrive first. There was a relic Security Guard who was shot during the search. He went up to the room, was advancing to the room when the suspect fired through the door and struck him. He was able to provide Additional Information to the police on the room we were looking at. They shooting had stopped at that time. The shooter was barricaded. No longer an active shooter. Were not hearing any shots. The floors had been evacuated of guests. The suspect was evacuated and contained in a room. We made our decision based on when it was appropriate to enter. I want to be clear, while there was a slight delay, the suspect was no longer firing into the crowd. There was a question about the validity of the crime scene photos. I can confirm those are in fact photographs from inside of the room. They are in fact photographs of our suspect. As the chef mentioned previously, we have opened up an internal investigation to determine the source of the links of the voters to the public. You asked what we found in the suspects room and the sheriff spoke a little bit about cameras being located. To qualify, there were two hallwaysocated in the of the suspect could watch as Law Enforcement or security approached his room. Another camera was placed inside the hotel room people so he could see down the the whole hole so he could see down the hallway. To my right, and Jill Schneider will provide a statement but not take any questions. Jill good evening. Charge ofal agent in atf San Francisco failed division. Special agents from the San Francisco field office responded. Others from other locations within the division as well as those from los angeles, dallas, phoenix, and boston have been working on this investigation. Questionsu have many regarding the firearms in this case. There have also been unofficial information being reported regarding the guns. We would like to clear up any conflicting information regarding the number of firearms and the current status of the information. Please understand the investigation is ongoing. I will not be taking questions at this time because were still working through our investigation findings. I will give you the facts we have as of this time. Currently, 47 firearms have been recovered. These firearms were recovered from three different locations. Those locations where the hotel room as well as the pretty and mesquite, nevada. They were purchased in nevada, utah, california, and texas. The gunman purchased rifles, shotguns, and pistols. At this time, none of the items appear to be homemade. There were 12 identified firearms in the hotel room. The Technology Division provides the determinations on things like bump fire stocks and their legality. It depends on whether they alter the firearm to fire automatically. While simulating automatic fire, they do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically, making them legal undercurrent federal law. It is still being determined which firearms were used in the shooting. All firearms have been traced. We are still awaiting results from some of the firearms at the residents. Atf will continue to conduct interviews and provide resources. Thank you. Thank you. Investigation continues, we continue to hear stories of her relics by police officers, First Responders, and average citizens. I commend your actions as it shows tremendous courage in the face of extreme danger. One of those brave people were a police officer, officer hartfield. He was at the concert with his wife when shots rang out. Even though of the server hartfield was at the concert even know officer hartfield was at the concert, he took action. He ultimately gave his life protecting others. He was an 11year member of the police force and leaves behind a wife and two children. We are very grateful for his sacrifice. There will be a vigil to remember officer hartfield. It is at a park located on academy weight and is being hosted by our police protective association. As this community has become accustomed, when we do provide information in regards to our local incidents, we release body cam footage to you. Significant amount of bodyworn footage we are going through. I am going to play a clip on our ary large monitor for you of compilation of a number of those cameras. You will see the officers were uncooperative citizens at times, at all times they were trying to locate the source of the gunfire as well as a vacuum those citizens that work as well as evacuate citizens in the line of fire. I will try to marry a little bit. Carlos, if you could play that a i will try to narrate little bit. Carlos, play that. This is at the mandalay. [sirens] ] houting down go that way go that way gunfire] crash at this point, they are still trying to figure out where the rounds are coming from it at this point, they are still trying to figure out where the rounds are coming from. [gunfire] [sirens] stay down. [indiscernible] are couple of officers hunkered down next to a police vehicle. Some get shot. ] unfire get back you back get back ] houting this video is obscured. You will notice the officers are wearing yellow reflective vests. That is what you are saying. [gunfire] very difficult to tell from the video, but the officer is standing over another woman. [gunfire] , get down et down at you heard him say, i have on vest best on. This way, this way, this way. Go, go, go. That way, that way, that way. Questions, take some i understand the coroner is here now. This is john gutenberg, clark county coroner. Thank you, undersheriff. My condolences go to all involved in this incident. Particularly those with family and friends. I would like to provide updated information on what is happening at the convention center. We are fully operational all evening, all through the night, and tomorrow at noon we will make a determination on whether we will be open 24 hours moving forward. At minimum, present time until 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow. We are still fully operational to answer any questions the families might have, any friends of the families. I would like to clarify we are not releasing property at the Family Assistance Center. As the sheriff said, they are developing a plan to release property in the future and i am certain that will be put out at a press conference. I would also like to discuss some of the numbers we have been dealing with over there. I had that question earlier by multiple media outlets. We have served over 1000 friends and family members at the Family Assistance Center. We are including treatment services, and our staff at the Clark County Coroners Office has been meeting with every family that comes in there. I would like to thank them. They are an Amazing Group of people doing an amazing job serving these families. I think everybody except for the amilies would consider this big success at the family center. The reason the family may not is if they are waiting one minute longer for us to provide information, that is one minute too long. I appreciate them. I want to send them a message we are doing everything we can do communicate with them and get them the information they need. If they want to come down to the Family Assistance Center we are there to communicate with them and assist them. I would like to provide a phone number that has been previously published an that is within the 211, outside,a, we have call takers standing by to take missing persons reports. I believe that has tapered off quite a bit. 3000ve received over missing persons reports. I would like to clarify what that means that means of people do not misreport the intent of that number or the intent of me giving that number. That by no means means that we have 3000 people missing. We believe that all 59 of the deceased are identified tentatively. We are working on positively identifying the rest of them. We believe that will happen by the end of this evening and p. M. N 9 0010 00 that is normal for us to receive an excessive amount of missing persons reports following an incident like that. That by no mean means we have outstanding missing persons. We have very detailed manifests and we believe everybody involved from the decedents standpoint are accounted for in we are waiting to communicate that with the families. I am willing to answer any questions you may have. I have limited time so i will take a few. Go ahead. Excuse me . Did, i amty of them not at liberty to tell you whether all of them died as a result of gunshot wounds because i do not know at this point. How long before the names are released . Recs i am working to develop that list and will make that public. I imagine not happen until at the earliest tomorrow morning. Those have not been identified [indiscernible] have tentatively identified them, but we are working on confirmation issues and i am confident they will be identified. We believe we know who every single one of them is. We are not at liberty to make mistakes, we have to get it right as the undersheriff mentioned earlier. We have to get this right so we need your patience and we are going to work through the night to get the right and i am hopeful we will have all of those confirmed [indiscernible] i believe so, but again, i cant confirm that right now. [indiscernible] speak to theing to details of the examinations at this point. Going to speak to any of the details of the examinations at this point, primarily out of respect to the families. Yes, did you have a question . [indiscernible] its quite a lengthy process, but in a nutshell, the families will makeeased arrangements with local mortuaries and they will be the ones who provide details and transportation back to their home state. One last question. To know how me victims are local and how many victims were not . Estimationhave that but we should have that list soon. [indiscernible] it does not. Excuse me, im not sure i understood that, i want to give you accurate information. [indiscernible] no. We have 58 dead, plus the shooter, for a total of 59. [indiscernible] the last question. I dont know. But that will be announced through one of these press conferences probably later today or most likely tomorrow at some point. Thats all the questions of going to take. The 59. Arify we have confirmed 59 dead in our office, yes. 58 plus the shooter for a total of 59. That is confirmed. Thank you very much. Is there another dead somewhere else . We were told priestly 59 plus one. That numbers the most recent role the number we have. [indiscernible] no, im not prepared to speak about that, but that is part of our investigation. The philippines [indiscernible] is there any mention of terrorism or anything like that . Im not trying to because it. Im not trying to be coy. We have not ruled anything out. But we have not ruled that in. We have a lot more questions than answers today. Go ahead, sir. [indiscernible] i will give that to you when we havent. We have guys working diligent. [indiscernible] the question is, do we have any information that the subject had trained himself and firearms . Im aware of that online report as well. We have not been able to confirm any of that information yet. Is there a reason why he stopped shooting . Did he see officers outside . Investigations will reveal that. I believe that because the Security Guard approached the room, he took time to fire on the Security Guard, and then please prefer to the room police approached the room. [indiscernible] i cant reveal that because i dont know yet. We have a lot of questions, i continue that. [indiscernible] the question is, can i give you the exact time that swat entered . I will provide that or the sheriff will provide that in the briefing. There was a delay because he wasnt firing anymore. We treat the situation is a barricade at that point. Decide im trying to learn that information through both rated medication and body cam information. The swat team is not your normal swat team, it was made up of both swat officers, patrol officers, and a k9 unit. He metric into another hotel the day before he checked into mandalay bay . We heard that same allegation. In the philippines [indiscernible] the question is, is ms. Danley coming back to the country . We have information and im not prepared to release that this at thistigation point in the investigation. Can we confirm that 100,000 was wired to the philippines . The answer is no. We have subpoenas that the fbi has put out a remains an active question. We want the answer that question. What kind of Security Officer shot that was approached approaching the door . Thats the kind of question we can answer tomorrow. I apologize, i forgot to introduce thes field agent in charge of the las vegas office. They have been a health and the very beginning. I like you to make sure you Pay Attention to our elected officials from across this great state and here locally. They have been instrumental in supporting our organization throughout this and we need it. There are a lot more questions than there are answers. We will provide those to you just as soon as we can. Thank you. [indiscernible] trump scheduled to visit las vegas this afternoon. 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