Las Vegas guard Jesus Campos vanished after visiting urgent-care clinic, union leader says

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

David Hickey of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) told reporters Friday that he got a text the night before saying Jesus Campos was taken to a UMC Quick Care facility, though he did not specify where or whom the text came from.
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.


Hickey said he was meeting with MGM officials Thursday afternoon in the hours before Campos’ scheduled television appearances, including one with Fox News.


But when the meeting ended, Campos had fled.


"For the past four days he's been preparing ... 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," Hickey told reporters, according to Fox 5 Las Vegas.
Hickey said Campos had requested to go public and wanted to tell his story and move on from the Oct. 1 shooting investigation. Police say he was shot just before the crazed gunman killed 58 at music festival on the Las Vegas Strip – though the sequence of events is still in dispute.
Campos was last photographed in public on Oct. 10, accepting an “SPFPA Hero Award” for bravery in the line of duty, while dining with Hickey and others at a high-end Vegas steakhouse. But soon afterward, investigators said that the security guard was shot before the massacre, raising questions about whether the hotel did enough to prevent the bloodshed.


Hickey has said that before he vanished, Campus was looking forward to telling his side of the story.


"Right now I'm just concerned where my member is, and what his condition is. It's highly unusual,” Hickey said Friday. “I'm hoping everything is OK with him and I'm sure MGM or the union will let (media) know when we hear something," he said.


Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this report.
 

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This story gets crazier and crazier and all of the conspiracy people are going to go nuts about this.
 

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Sometimes it's better to not say anything especially when you blow up the story that was told
 
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Or he could be thinking, Leave me alone .... and My head is fuked up and need some time away
 

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Jesus

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so lets see - - the gunman shoots 200 bullets through the door and barely grazes the security guard.
doesnt seem to add up
 

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so lets see - - the gunman shoots 200 bullets through the door and barely grazes the security guard.
doesnt seem to add up

He is Jesus....
 

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He must have parted the sea of bullets.

Technically its was Moses that parted the sea but close enough
 

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He will re-appear shortly with a lawyer. He will never have to work again, work related PTSD.
 

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He will re-appear shortly with a lawyer. He will never have to work again, work related PTSD.

Bingo! Exactly what I was thinking. I’m sure he’s been advised to stay away from media as he’s recovering from his psychological trauma.

Only money can cure him now.
 

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He is suppose to appear on Ellen on Wednesday to discuss it all. They just ran a bit on the local news about it.
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Ellen DeGeneres announced Tuesday evening that Jesus Campos, a Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino security guard injured by the Las Vegas gunman Oct. 1, will appear on her show Wednesday afternoon.
“Tomorrow, the first people to encounter the Las Vegas shooter are here – security guard Jesus Campos and building engineer Stephen Schuck,” DeGeneres wrote on Twitter.


The post featured a photo of Campos alongside Schuck, a Mandalay Bay maintenance worker, seated on a couch across from DeGeneres. It prompted mixed reactions on social media.

“This guy has been missing for days??? We all have questions and now he is going to appear on a daytime talk show??? This is very bizarre.

In an interview with NBC’s "Today" show last week, Schuck recalled seeing Campos in the hotel's hallway, being pinned down by gunfire.


The news of the "Ellen" appearance comes after Campos mysteriously canceled a series of scheduled TV interviews last week -- sparking widespread speculation regarding his whereabouts.

Campos "wants to tell his story at a time and place of his choosing," MGM Resorts International spokeswoman Debra DeShong told the Associated Press about Campos' location. "He's asked that everyone respect his request for privacy."
The statement came after union leader David Hickey of Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America said Tuesday he last heard about Campos on Friday from a union member who texted that he was with Campos.

"The message was, 'We are taking him to a Quick Care,' " Hickey said, referring to a walk-in health clinic with several locations in and around Las Vegas. He added that the Friday texts didn’t state Campos’ location, and Hickey declined to name the union worker.


"We're hoping to hear from Mr. Campos, and if Mr. Campos contacts us for assistance we will be there," the union chief told AP.

In addition, the property of Campos’ family home was conspicuously posted with "No Trespassing" signs.

Gunman Stephen Paddock injured Campos’ leg with “strafing” gunfire through a hotel suite door, less than a minute before opening fire out his hotel room windows at a outdoor country music festival across the road. The attack killed 58 people and injured hundreds more, according to Las Vegas police.

Despite Campos’s low profile of recent days, Las Vegas police Officer Larry Hadfield, a department spokesman, assured Tuesday that the department never lost track of Campos' whereabouts and never had reason to believe he was in danger.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.
 

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He could be part of it, he could have been paid off, but you'd think the security cameras would reveal all that

It's also possible he's illegal, or he simply had a panic attack
 

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You think the hotel would have an illegal working for them?
 

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With a fake SSN, or somebody else's SSN, it's plausible. Maybe even with the use of an ITIN.
I don't think they'd pay him under the table.

Having said that, I just read he turned up so he's no longer MIA
 

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Las Vegas security guard breaks silence on 'Ellen'


The security guard who was shot at the beginning of the Las Vegas gunman's rampage has finally spoken out about his brush with death.
Jesus Campos had several interviews scheduled last week, before he cancelled them all and disappeared.
But he resurfaced on Tuesday, when Ellen announced that she would be interviewing him on her show.
Ellen released a preview of the interview Wednesday morning, in which Campos describes the moment that gunman Stephen Paddock started shooting at him through the door of his Mandalay Bay hotel room suite.
Sitting next to maintenance worker Stephen Schuck, who was also shot at by Paddock, Campos says he went up to the 32nd floor to figure out why a fire escape door wasn't opening.
When he reached the 32nd floor he said he heard 'drilling sounds' and assumed they were doing work nearby. It's unclear what those drilling sounds were. The most recent police timeline says that Paddock hadn't started shooting at the festival until after Campos arrived on the floor and was injured.
The stairwell door emptied onto the 32nd floor right outside Paddock's corner suite, and Campos was walking away from the room when he says the gunman started shooting at him.
'I heard rapid fire,' Campos recalled. 'At first I took cover. I felt a burning sensation. I went to go lift my pant leg up and I saw the blood and that's when I called it in on my radio.'
Police believe Paddock was tipped off to Campos' arrival due to security cameras he rigged in the hallway. They say he fired 200 gunshots through the door at Campos before opening fire at a music festival across the street through a broken window in his room.
Shuck arrived on the floor just as Campos was being shot at, and he credits the security guard with saving his life.
'Jesus, he leaned out and he said "take cover, take cover!" and yelled at me and within milliseconds...if he didn't say that I would have got hit,' Schuck said.
When asked how he is coping, Campos said: 'I'm doing better each day. Slowly but surely, just healing physically and mentally.'
He also made sure to thank everyone who helped stop Paddock and who aided the victims that night.
'Everyone came together to help that night even in the darkest hour,' he said.
Campos said that his interview with Ellen will be the first and only time he speaks publicly about what happened.
Ellen says that both Campos and Schuck refused to accept any money from her, so one of the show's sponsors donated $25,000 to the Las Vegas Victim's Fund on their behalf.
The full interview with Campos and Schuck airs Wednesday afternoon on Ellen.
It comes after police spoke out saying Campos was a victim and he was not a missing person after questions were raised about his disappearance.
Campos had interviews with Fox, CBS, CNN, ABC and NBC scheduled for last Thursday, but he was a no show to all of them.
Questions have been raised about his whereabouts but police told Fox News on Tuesday that he was not considered a missing person.
'He is a victim in this and we don't discuss victims,' Las Vegas Police officer Larry Hadfield said.
A spokeswoman for MGM Resorts International, the casino company that owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, said Campos was safe but that he wanted people to respect his privacy.
It comes after a representative for Campos' union said he had prepared last Thursday for TV appearances but went to a health clinic instead.
Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America leader David Hickey said Tuesday he last heard about Jesus Campos' whereabouts from a union member who messaged that he was with Campos at the clinic.
Hickey says the same union member sent messages on Friday saying he was with Campos but not saying where.
His disappearance came just hours after MGM Resorts International disputed the official timeline of the shooting.
They rejected any suggestion that hotel staff delayed calling 911 for six minutes after Paddock opened fire.
The latest chronology raised a series of questions about whether officers were given information quickly enough to possibly have a chance to take out the gunman before he could carry out the bloodshed.
But according to resort officials, it was no more than 40 seconds between the time Campos used his walkie talkie to call for help and Paddock opening fire on the crowd from two windows in his suite.
Earlier in the investigation, police had said that Paddock shot through his door and wounded Campos after the guard distracted him from firing on the crowd out the windows.








 

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Alex Jones probably won't be mentioning this today
 

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