The Mandalay Bay Massacre: The Quelching?

Following up on Mandalay Bay Massacre: The Lone Gunman? and Shiites, Sunni's and The Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Shooting?

Over at a financial forum... 
Some friends commented regarding the recent massacre.
BDC - this las vegas investigating is getting further into the "huh?" and head scratching every day. I'm not prone to conspiracies but….
Worry not, Snopes has been dispatched to dispel and quelch such theories...

The Quelching?


1. Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos was an "accomplice" to Las Vegas Strip mass shooter Stephen Paddock.


Conspiracy theorists have accused Campos of being a second shooter and subsequently killing Paddock.  One small problem, Campos attempted to enter Paddock's room, was shot in the leg and immediately radioed the shooters location.  Without Campos assistance, it may have taken LEO longer to locate the shooter. All of this should be evident in hotel security videos. - False


2. A second gunman fired at a crowd from the fourth floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino during the mass shooting in Las Vegas.


One small problem, the 4th floor glass window seen to be "strobing" gunfire in videos, is intact. The shooter must have utilized covert ops phasing or density manipulation ammunition, which allowed the solid bullets to pass through the solid glass without shattering it? -  False


A Video Tour of Insane Theorists?


A 2016 video of Room 32 - 135 at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay, found on YouTube and Facebook.


Some insane right and left wing conspiracy theories abound, coverage from Newsweek, Politifact and Metro.


Samir Al-Hajib Is A Meme?


Last week we reported the following as potential false flag fodder...

According to an unofficial report from Reshet Bet, the Las Vegas shooter's name is Samir al-Hajib.  He is an American who converted to Islam at the age of 30 and lives in Las Vegas. - Israel News
After a bit of rooting around in the mire, we offer the following analysis.

Samir Al-Hajib:  Samir = Sam ; Al-Hajib = Chamberlain


Chamberlain = An official of a Muslim court, of varied importance, initially controlling access to the caliph, but later very powerful; a chamberlain.


ALSO = a headscarf, "concealing, covering, eyebrow"  from حَجَبَ‏ (ḥajaba), “to veil, to cover, to screen” - Wiktionary


Samir Al-Hajib AKA Sam Hidden, Hide or Hyde = An internet comedian with a meme named after him.


Sam Hyde = A meme “Sam Hyde Is The Shooter

Sam Hyde has been a target of smearing campaigns carried out by 4chan’s anonymous trolls and critics of his comedy, prompting his name to be invoked as a possible suspect in a number of major gun violence incidents across the United States since 2015, including the shootings in San Bernardino, California, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Hesston, Kentucky, Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the U.S. Naval base in San Diego, California, the U.S. Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, among many others. In July 2016, Hyde was once again falsely attributed by several European news outlets as a suspect in the shooting spree at a shopping mall in Munich, Germany, resulting in the largest spike in search queries of his name to date. - KnowYourMeme
To summarize, the American shooter who was supposed to be a Muslim convert is really a widely distributed disinformation meme intended to smear an internet comedian.

Breanna Backs Down?


Last week, we also reported regarding Breanna Hendricks.... original twitter and video, subsequent news story and full video.

Brianna Hendricks reported that about 45 minutes before the shooting, she saw a woman pushing her way forward into the front row of the concert venue.  "She started messing with another lady and told us that we were all going to die tonight," 


In the above video, a woman identified as Shawn Hendricks [Brianna's mother] can be seen to the left of Brianna Hendricks in the video.  Both women claimed to be visiting Las Vegas from Colorado to celebrate Brianna's 21st birthday. Yet, nothing can be found on either woman of that name in Colorado.


Who is she and why is the media not following up on this story?  Worry not, Snopes has been dispatched to dispel and quelch any theories.

Breanna Hendricks — the source of the original reports — has recanted her original version of events and now claims that a woman was ejected from the concert for issuing threats, but now that these threats were targeted at specific fellow concert-goers and were not related to the subsequent mass shooting. 
In a shift from her earlier account, that witness has subsequently said she believes the threats were made specifically to a small group of concert-goers and were related to an altercation. - Unproven.

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