Hero Las Vegas security guard vanishes moments before TV interview

AS CONFUSION mounts over the minutes leading up to the Vegas shooting, the one man who could explain it has gone missing.

Mandalay Bay security guard who was shot by Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock (pictured) has vanished moments before his first TV interview as different accounts of what happened that night surface. Picture: Eric Paddock/AP

WHERE in the world is Jesus Campos?

The Mandalay Bay security guard shot by Stephen Paddock in the moments leading up to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history was set to break his silence Thursday night with five television interviews, including one on Fox News, Campos’ union president said.

Except when the cameras were about to roll, and media gathered in the building to talk to him, Campos allegedly bolted, and, as of early Friday morning, it wasn’t immediately clear where he was, Fox News reports.

“We were in a room and we came out and he was gone,” Campos’ union president told reporters, according to ABC News’ Stephanie Wash.

Media scrum tonight as we learn security officer shot in Vegas attack, Jesus Campos’ whereabouts are unknown. pic.twitter.com/Jk09tRlPsX

— Stephanie Wash (@WashNews) 13 October 2017

Campos is represented by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA), which did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News earlier this week.

Fox News’ Sean Hannity tweeted out that Campos, who was scheduled to appear on “Hannity” Thursday night, “cancelled” his appearance.

He cancelled. https://t.co/fWCb4X8cNQ

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) 13 October 2017

Little is known about Campos, with few pictures to emerge of the security guard and no apparent online footprint surfacing to provide details about one of the central figures in the mass shooting.

New information released by law enforcement has contradicted previously stated timelines and police responses surrounding the attack.

In the most recent police timeline, provided Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Paddock fired about 200 bullets from his room at the resort starting at 9.59pm on Oct. 1 — the volley in which Campos was hit — and then began opening fire on the music festival crowd six minutes later.

Police had earlier said the opposite — that Campos was struck after Paddock started firing out the window.

These varying versions of events, along with conflicting statements made by the Mandalay Bay’s owner MGM Resorts International, have brought into question what really happened the night of the massacre.

Conflicting details surrounding the time Jesus Campos (pictured) was shot by gunman Stephen Paddock continue to emerge. Picture: Fox News

At a news briefing Lombardo said he was “offended” at the criticisms that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) were receiving over the murky timeline.

“There is no conspiracy between the FBI, between LVMPD and the MGM. “Nobody is attempting to hide anything in reference to this investigation,” he said.

“The dynamics and the size of this investigation requires us to go through voluminous amounts of information in order to draw an accurate picture.”

MGM Resorts issued a statement Thursday to “correct some of the misinformation that has been reported.”

“We know that shots were being fired at the festival lot at the same time as, or within 40 seconds after, the time Jesus Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio,” the statement said.

“Metro officers were together with armed Mandalay Bay security officers in the building when Campos first reported that shots were fired over the radio. These Metro officers and armed Mandalay Bay security officers immediately responded to the 32nd floor.”

SPFPA President David L. Hickey told reporters new information about the timeline of the attack doesn’t dispute Campos is still a hero for saving a maintenance worker and possibly stopping additional shots.

Nearly two weeks into the investigation, authorities have yet to disclose a motive for Paddock’s attack, which left 58 dead.

This article was originally published by Fox News and appears here with permission.