One of the interesting points of the event is that many witnesses reported there was a second shooter coming at them around the gate 7 area of the venue. Even on the police scanners you hear them say that it sounds like shots are fired coming from around gate 7. I've watched many of the videos of the event from the different angles. It is clear where gate 5, 6, and 2a and 2B are. Based on that it would appear that Gate 7 was located somewhere around stage right behind the stage looking out from Aldean's point of view. If you look at this gentlemen's scientific analysis Gate 7 is in the zone where one of the potential locations of a second shooter could have been. Anyone out there who is investigating this on there own I think figuring out exactly where Gate 7 was located in the venue would be a great lead into figuring out where the second shooter was based on witnesses, the police scanner chatter, and this gentlemen's analysis.
Based on my own personal research I believe the 2nd shooter was most likely by the AMPM (likely from an elevated point such as the roof) which is located ~300 yard to the north of the stage at the fairgrounds. The reasons for me focusing mainly on this location is due to the fact that it most accurately aligns with other evidence from that days events which I will list below.
"Control 374 I got medics reporting they are being shot at, at the Tropicana"
"Be advised that there is an active shooter at the Tropicana, active shooter Tropicana"
"Control 35-SD we have possible reports of shots fired inside New York New York"
"We're getting a 415A, from the advisor that there was a shooter at the front desk. They have records at the 415A at New York there might of been an active shooter possibly coming down the escalator from New York New York to Excalibur"
"Control 224-IC confirming I have casualties at Ali Baba and Giles east of the Catholic shrine as well as in the Mandalay Bay, so we have 2 scenes"
Basically the AMPM location lines up as the most probable 2nd shooter location during the event due to it being the furthest possible point from the Mandalay Bay within the shooters radius (which matches the audio evidence), allows for an attack from both sides of the fairgrounds (which makes sense if your going to do a 2 shooter event to maximize damage and minimize escape points), allows the 2 shooters to cover the entire fairgrounds with their attacks (shooter 1 covers the Southern half of the fairgrounds from the South while the 2nd shooter covers the Northern half of the fairgrounds from the North), it is one of the only locations possible that would allow for shots to be fired at not only the fairgrounds, but also at the medics near the front of the Tropicana (as reported via police scanner multiple times that night), is also the most probable location for shots to be reported at the Excalibur and New York New York (has line of sight with both, is within reasonable range of both, by far more then any of the other potential locations), and is within the 250 yard range of the Giles/Ali Baba intersection where further casualties are reported (via police scanner).
Just my 2 cents....
Cell phone video running toward Oasis Apartments. Also, at the very end it shows another great angle of the Mandalay Bay 4th floor shooter muzzle flash.
Thanks for that, I had not see that one before, but yes it further confirms the most likely position of the 2nd shooter to be to the North of the fairground (not to the South), which again appears to point to the AMPM being the likley spot.
Thank you for providing your well thought out breakdown. I think you may be onto something. I just found another cell phone video in which the people in the video are fleeing out of the gate 7 area toward and through the parking lot of the Oasis Apartments. The shooter is not over there. The sounds in the video do not sound close enough for the shooter to be there. If the shooter were those people in the video would have been quick targets below.
It is also reported that their was automatic fire near the Bellagio over 30 minutes AFTER the shooting at the Mandalay Bay was already over ("Be advised that now we are getting shots fired at Caesars and the Bellagio"), which is even further North up the Vegas strip. Did the 2nd shooter flee the Northern AMPM scene after the fairground shooting was finished, start heading north into New York New York attempted to escape during all the concussion but is made as a possible shooter once inside the building forcing him to open fire and then flee the area ("Control 35-SD we have possible reports of shots fired inside New York New York") forcing him to turn around the direction he came from and head back south towards the Excalibur ("We're getting a 415A, from the advisor that there was a shooter at the front desk. They have records at the 415A at New York there might of been an active shooter possibly coming down the escalator from New York New York to Excalibur"), where he then gets into an RV across the street from the Excalibur near the Tropicana ("There is 1 WMA (White Male Adult) in black fatigues in a white RV off of Cobalt and Tropicana"), where he again attempts to head North away from the main focal point fairground crime scene, but is then confronted and stopped by police shortly after near the intersection of the Bellagio and Caesars Palace, after which a short period (stand-off) is then forced to either attempt to shoot his way out with the police or is shot by police ("Be advised that now we are getting shots fired at Caesars and the Bellagio")... All of which in my opinion appears to best match all the evidence attached to this event (audio analysis, video analysis, location analysis, timeline analysis, police transmission analysis, logical analysis...).
Anyways, just my 2 cents...
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