Thread: Shock Report: Missing Vegas Security Guard Jesus Campos is Illegal Alien?

This is a video from Laura Loomer visiting the home of Jesus Campos. She asks questions of the person guarding the residence.

We know that the alleged killer's home (Paddock) was burglarized. Was it guarded?





https://youtu.be/5LQPnZyd5EY

Is the Mandalay Bay Security Guard 'Missing'?

Police told us that despite widespread rumors and speculation, Jesus Campos is not missing.

CLAIM
Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos is "missing."
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FALSE

ORIGIN

In the days following the 1 October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, various conspiratorial web sites and Internet personalities began casting aspersions on a wounded Mandalay Bay security guard, falsely claiming he was an “accomplice” to gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history before turning the gun on himself.

At about 10:05 P.M., Paddock began firing from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on a crowd of 22,000 people attending an outdoor country music festival. In the minutes before the mass shooting started, Paddock fired 200 bullets into the hotel hallway, wounding security guard Jesus Campos in the leg. Campos has been hailed as a hero for his actions that night, warning a building engineer about the gunfire and helping police evacuate the floor despite his leg wound.

As we have reported, there is no evidence Campos was involved in the shooting other than being victimized when he, along with hundreds of others, was wounded in the attack. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the law enforcement agency leading the investigation, has repeatedly said that Paddock was the only shooter that night. Nevertheless, various disreputable web sites have already been busily spreading misinformation that Campos was implicated as a second gunman, and that authorities had arrested him as such. Both claims are completely untrue and have been roundly debunked.

Conspiracy theories were kicked up anew on 12 October 2017, when the 24-year-old Campos abruptly cancelled media interviews, including a scheduled appearance on Sean Hannity’s popular Fox News show. According to his union, Campos went to a walk-in medical clinic that night instead. No other explanation for the cancelled appearances has been offered.

Although many may find it unsurprising that a person who narrowly escaped mass murder days earlier would want to lay low, the cancelled appearances caused a cascade of meltdowns among the conspiracy-minded and attention-seeking. For example, in all-capital letters, Ann Coulter tweeted, “MANDALAY BAY SECURITY GUARD, JESUS CAMPOS, NOW MISSING AFTER SCHEDULING 5 MEDIA INTERVIEWS.” Self-deputized “investigative journalist” Laura Loomer declared, “If #JesusCampos is truly a hero, why would he cancel his interview with @seanhannity ? That’s like ripping up a winning lotery [sic] ticket!”
Some mainstream news outlets reported that Campos had “vanished,” which implied he had disappeared entirely, leaving no trace behind. However, Campos appears to have merely withdrawn from the public eye, while his current whereabouts remain privately known by some (such as LVMPD).

LVMPD officer Larry Hadfield told us that Campos is not missing, and reiterated that Paddock had no accomplices when he rained bullets down on the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Hadfield told us, flat-out:

[Campos] is not missing. He’s not under arrest. We tell people what we know. If they don’t believe it but they’re going to believe whatever web site, then I don’t know what else to tell you.

David Hickey, international president of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, the union that represents Campos, told us the last time he saw the injured guard was the day of his scheduled interviews. Hickey described Campos as “humble” and wanting to get his story out so he could leave the traumatic events behind him:

When I talked to him he wanted to tell his story, he said he wanted to ‘get it all done in one day and move on with my life.’

But when Hickey emerged from a meeting just hours before Campos was scheduled to go on Hannity’s show, he told us he discovered that the young man, along with another union member and a security guard protecting Campos, had left:

We did receive a text from my other officer saying, ‘We’re on our way to [walk-in clinic] Quick Care.’ That was the last response we got. We made multiple calls for two days and received no return calls.

We sent an inquiry to Mandalay Bay’s parent company, MGM Resorts International, asking why Campos has security guards protecting him, and received no response.

Although Campos’s guard detail created yet another thread to which amateurInternet sleuths could cling, Ryan Graney, who represents the family of Victoria Soto — a teacher killed protecting her students during the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary massacre — told us it makes sense that Campos, now the accidental target of conspiracy theorists and “truthers,” is under guard:

In my rational mind [the fact he has security] makes sense because these people, the hoaxers especially, will go out of their way to take this offline. These people have shown up at Vicki’s 5k before. I had a woman follow me into federal court. These people will show up and they will harass the victims.

He definitely needs some kind of protection because they will go to great lengths to prove in their paranoid minds what they think is right. They are scary individuals.

Sandy Hook “truthers” have been on a crusade to prove that the thoroughly covered and well-documented massacre of children was a “false flag” engineered by the government in the service of the “New World Order,” a ubiquitous but vague conspiracy theory peddled by the likes of InfoWars host Alex Jones, in which a secret but powerful cabal seeks to institute an autocratic global regime which will only be enabled once the government has seized all the guns from Americans. At least two “truthers” have been arrested for things like harassing or sending death threats to victims’ families.

Graney said those same “truthers” are currently whipping themselves into an online frenzy over Campos: poring over photographs for supposed discrepancies, attempting to track his whereabouts, and scrutinizing a public database for the Nevada Private Investigator’s Licensing Board (a spokesman for the board told us that agency has no jurisdiction over casino security guards like Campos).

Richard A. Patterson, a founding partner of the law firm Owen, Patterson & Owen, which has filed a petition to have the courts appoint a public administrator to oversee Paddock’s assets in lieu of pending litigation on behalf of victims, told us that Campos’s hesitance to speak to the media and maintain a low profile is not surprising:

Based on my clients’ experiences, it’s a lot just to have the courage to speak publicly once and deal with the exposure in the media and post-traumatic stress they’re suffering from. It’s reliving the tragedy.

It would be very reasonable to expect that Mr. Campos has either been directed by his medical care providers or his family or from his own sense of balance to withdraw from public appearances at this point. I think we owe him the opportunity to get a couple of weeks behind him that will enable him to gather his strength and his emotional focus to be able to deal with these things. In our opinion, he’s a hero.

This is not the first time a person’s lack of desire to speak to the media has been misconstrued as that person being “missing.” For months in late 2016, online conspiracy theorists set about searching for signs of Eric Braverman, a former Clinton Foundation executive officer they believed had disappeared due to nefarious activity by the Clintons in an effort silence potential critics. After intense online speculation about his whereabouts, Braverman surfaced in mid-January 2017 to publicly announce he was taking on a new job.

http://www.snopes.com/is-the-mandala...guard-missing/

We will hopefully know the truth of all that surrounds this horrific event in time, JohnDoe2. Stories change, timelines change. The public is often misled and lied to about situations.

Fake Las Vegas news from 4chan, Gateway Pundit ends up on mainstream sites

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
PUBLISHED: October 2, 2017 at 7:01 pm | UPDATED: October 3, 2017 at 11:09 am

By Ryan Nakashima | Associated Press

MENLO PARK — False news that erroneously named a suspect in the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting on Sunday spread on Google and Facebook before the services removed the posts in question, the two companies acknowledged Monday.



Erroneous posts on both services — one highlighted by Google’s “Top Stories” search results, the other circulated by Facebook users — falsely identified the shooter as an apparently uninvolved person.

Las Vegas police say Stephen Craig Paddock, of Mesquite, Nevada, fired down on concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino hotel, killing at least 59 people and wounding more than 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Paddock killed himself as authorities closed in.

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But a story by the pro-Trump political website the Gateway Pundit named a different person as the shooter, citing a Facebook page to claim the individual was “a far left loon” and “a Democrat who liked (MSNBC host) Rachel Maddow.”

Posters on the anonymous, anarchic 4chan.org forum likewise trumpeted supposed findings that the same individual was both the shooter and a “social democrat.” BuzzFeed saved screenshots of the stories, which no longer turn up on either Gateway Pundit or 4chan.

Google said in a statement that it highlighted 4chan’s “Politically Incorrect” message board, where the incorrect posts appeared, for several hours before its search algorithm replaced it with more relevant results. The 4chan result only appeared if users entered the erroneous name as a query, Google said. The listing did not appear in Google News.

“This should not have appeared for any queries,” a Google spokesperson said, adding that the company would aim to prevent it from happening again.

Facebook said its security team removed Gateway Pundit results and other similar posts from its social network, some within minutes. But because that removal was “delayed,” the company said, images of the incorrect story were captured and circulated online.

“We are working to fix the issue that allowed this to happen in the first place and deeply regret the confusion this caused,” a Facebook spokesman said in a statement.

Both companies are under fire from lawmakers for promoting false stories in the lead-up to last year’s election, and have been invited to testify at a congressional investigation into Russian meddling in the race.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/0...ogle-facebook/

Las Vegas Shooting: Security Guard Haled As Hero, Thought Missing, Is Safe

MGM Resorts, which owns Mandalay Bay where Jesus Campos works, says the guard is safe.

By Colin Miner (Patch Staff) - Updated Oct 17, 2017 3:58 pm ET



Jesus Campos, the security guard hailed as a hero for his actions the night Stephen Paddock killed dozens and wounded hundreds, is not missing despite an assertion from his union saying otherwise. MGM Resorts, which owns Mandalay Bay where Campos works, released a statement Tuesday saying that he is safe.

The head of the union that represents Campos had said that the guard had gone missing after he failed to show up for a series of network television interviews last week.

David Hickey, the president of the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, had said afterward that Campos had gone to a health clinic and had not been heard from since. (For more information on the aftermath of the shooting and other Las Vegas stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

MGM Resorts says that Campos is safe and will tell his story when he is ready. In the meantime, they said, he would like people to respect his privacy.

The company added that they could not be more proud of Campos.

When he didn't show up for the interviews, conspiracy theories started popping up, all of which had been discounted.

https://patch.com/nevada/lasvegas/la...t-missing-safe

Lots of fake news out ther for sure. I read the stories as asking if Jesus Campos is an illegal alien and if he is who he says. News sources such as the LA Times, Fox, others have said that Campos has vanished.

MGM is now supposedly claiming Campos is laying low. More investigation may give more answers.

Mystery as Vegas police stop news conferences on massacre, call wounded guard a 'victim'

By Greg Norman



MGM: Las Vegas security guard is not missing

Mandalay Bay's parent company says Jesus Campos doesn't want media attention right now.




The Mandalay Bay security guard who slipped out of the public spotlight in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting is not a missing person, police told Fox News on Tuesday, amid continuing questions about his whereabouts.

Jesus Campos was scheduled for a series of television interviews last week, including one with Fox News' Sean Hannity, but the guard vanished in the hours beforehand, without telling his union president where he was heading.





Jesus Campos hasn't been heard from since he was set to give a series of interviews last week.


“He is a victim in this and we don’t discuss victims,” Las Vegas Police Officer and Spokesman Larry Hadfield told Fox News on Tuesday.


Hadfield said the department is not planning on holding any future press conferences, absent the development of new details.


MGM Resorts International, the hotel's parent company, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Jesus Campos wants to tell his story at a time and place of his choosing. He’s asked that everyone respect his request for privacy. We could not be more proud of Jesus.” The newspaper suggested that based on that statement, MGM seems to know Campos' whereabouts.


David Hickey, president of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America union, which represents Campos, said on Monday it had been four days since he last saw Campos.


“We have had no contact with him... Clearly, somebody knows where he is," Hickey told the Los Angeles Times.


The union leader on Friday told reporters he received a text Campos was visiting a walk-in health clinic in the Las Vegas metropolitan area.


"For the past four days he's been preparing," Hickey told reporters Friday, FOX5 Las Vegas reported. "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."

But as of Tuesday, the clinic told Fox News it had no updates on a possible visit from him. On Monday, a spokeswoman said she had “heard nothing” about Campos stopping by.


Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said Campos was investigating an alarm for a door that had been left ajar on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino when he was shot by gunman Stephen Paddock on Oct. 1. Campos then alerted hotel security about the ongoing scene, police said.


However, a former guard who worked for the property in the early 2000s cast doubt on Lombardo’s statement Monday, telling the Los Angeles Times no such security system existed during his employment there.


“There was no alarm system for opened doors when I was there,” he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. “You know how often people would have to call hotel guests if that was the case?”


One of Campos’ co-workers who spoke to the newspaper hopes Campos – who she called “humble and so charming” -- emerges soon so he can be honored for his actions on the night of the shooting.


“He was always in the middle of what was going down,” the co-worker said, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.


On Sunday, a man who said he had been hired to guard Campos' house in northern Las Vegas told the Los Angeles Times he was there to prevent news media from snooping around on the property, but did not reveal who asked him to do the job.


“No media on property” read one sign near the home.


Neighbors around the single story building where Campos reportedly lived, with a pool in the backyard, said the Mandalay Bay guard mostly kept to himself.


"He's a hero,” Jaime Ruano told the Los Angeles Times, “and nobody knows where he is.”




http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/17...es-victim.html

Campos appears to have merely withdrawn from the public eye, while his current whereabouts remain privately known by some (such as LVMPD).

LVMPD officer Larry Hadfield told us that Campos is not missing, and reiterated that Paddock had no accomplices when he rained bullets down on the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Hadfield told us, flat-out:

[Campos] is not missing. He’s not under arrest. We tell people what we know. If they don’t believe it but they’re going to believe whatever web site, then I don’t know what else to tell you.
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QUOTE from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman:

Is the Mandalay Bay Security Guard 'Missing'?

I live just outside Vegas.....I pray every day that ICE would storm ANY Casino.....Jobs for AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MGM Contradicts Claim Guard Jesus Campos Is Missing — Vegas Timeline Thrown Into Question Again

October 17, 2017 by Joshua Caplan

On Saturday, a representative for Campos revealed the hotel security guard checked into a clinic moments before he was set to speak to the media about the Las Vegas Massacre.

Daily Mail UK reports:

The security guard is yet to be interviewed since he was shot by Stephen Paddock on October 1 on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.


On Thursday, Campos was due to appear at a press conference after being given an award for his bravery but he disappeared.


His union representative revealed on Saturday that Campos was taken to a clinic shortly afterwards but he did not know which.

‘Right now I’m just concerned where my member is, and what his condition is. It’s highly unusual.

Jesus Campos has gone missing once again. The Union representative who recently issued a statement to the press on Campos’ behalf says he doesn’t know where he is now. After Campos checked into a clinic, he appears to have vanished once again.


FOX News reports:

The Mandalay Bay security guard who disappeared last week moments before he was scheduled to break his silence in television interviews has not been seen since he went to a walk-in health clinic, his union president said.


[…]A spokesperson at the UMC Quick Care, which has eight locations throughout the Las Vegas area, told Fox News on Monday that they had “heard nothing” about Campos visiting them.Multiple requests from Fox News for SPFPA to comment on the matter were not returned Monday.

Fox News contributor Randy Sutton believes Campos was told to “shut the hell up,” about his role in the Las Vegas attack.

In yet another strange move by law enforcement, Mandalay Bay hotel security guard Jesus Campos is now being identified as a “victim.” Las Vegas Police Officer and Spokesman Larry Hadfield is refusing to reveal any details about Campos, who as The Gateway Pundit previously reporter, has gone missing.


Fox News reports:

“He is a victim in this and we don’t discuss victims,” Las Vegas Police Officer and Spokesman Larry Hadfield told Fox News on Tuesday.

Hadfield said the department is not planning on holding any future press conferences, absent the development of new details.

MGM Resorts International, the hotel’s parent company, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Jesus Campos wants to tell his story at a time and place of his choosing. He’s asked that everyone respect his request for privacy. We could not be more proud of Jesus.” The newspaper suggested that based on that statement, MGM seems to know Campos’ whereabouts.

Now this…


On Tuesday afternoon, MGM released a statement saying Jesus Campos is not missing and wants to wait for the proper time to reveal his side of the story on the Las Vegas shooting.


Las Vegas Review-Journal reports:

“But a statement released this morning by MGM, the parent company of Mandalay Bay, suggests something that he’s simply shy and doesn’t want media attention.
MGM told the Review-Journal in a Tuesday email: “Jesus Campos wants to tell his story at a time and place of his choosing. He’s asked that everyone respect his request for privacy. We could not be more proud of Jesus.”


Campos, who was shot in the right thigh by Paddock as he approached the gunman’s suite at Mandalay Bay, has become a critical witness in the mass shooting because the police timeline of the events of Oct. 1 has changed twice.”

Amid the anger and confusion brought upon by an ever-changing timeline by the Las Vegas Police Department and FBI, MGM Resorts International has hired an elite crisis management firm. The move comes on the same day Sheriff Joe Lombardo claims there is little difference between police and Casino timelines.


MGM Resorts International has said otherwise — twice. Now, MGM is “debunking,” another claim. Fed up with the continuously shifting timeline, The Gateway Pundit previously reported via the Las Vegas Review-Journal that MGM Resorts International hired an elite crisis management firm.


Las Vegas Review-Journal reports:

The casino operator selected New York-based corporate communications firm Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher to assist in responding to inquires from media and investors regarding the investigation into the Mandalay Bay shooting.


Joele Frank has likely received an initial crisis fee in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and would bill MGM from $500 to $1,000 an hour ”for many, many hours,” said Ronn Torossian, chief executive officer of 5WPR, a renowned PR firm headquartered in New York.



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017...rown-question/