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Local hotels partner with police to learn from Las Vegas shooting

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Channel: LOCAL 12 · 2017 · News & Politics

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - No one can say yet how the Las Vegas shooter managed to get 23 guns into his hotel room without anyone noticing. Hotels are now taking a closer look at how they do business.

Cincinnati hotels and police are partnering to learn from Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas police officers who became an “improv” SWAT team breached Stephen Paddock's hotel room as he fired into the crowd of concertgoers below. One of the cops said they were tripping over rifles. He had 23 weapons. So how did he get them in there without anyone noticing?

"This could be a ski bag or it could be a rifle bag… be aware of that,” said Cincinnati Police Captain Mike Neville,

Downtown's Police Captain Mike Neville is working with the hotels on employee training because of Las Vegas. One bag is for a rifle, the other for a snow board. Or is it?

"I want them to know that just because it doesn't look like a gun bag doesn't mean there isn't one in there,” said CPD Captain Neville.

Hotel employees will get help in observing people profiling, but the shooter didn't match the profile of a madman.

When police got inside the room, Paddock had already killed himself. They did not expect him to be a 64-year-old man with no criminal past. Besides the weapons, he had other equipment for his murderous plan.

"I saw phones laptops tools, with the dust and flash of light… it was like a movie,” said a member of the Las Vegas Police who breached the room.

It was like a horror movie, one that Paddock was able to produce because he told the hotel he did not want housecleaning for days. Some hotels won't allow that.

"Few put it on their website, that after so many hours the room will be cleaned and inspected for safety for everyone,” said CPD Captain Neville.

The phrase to often go back to is “See Something, Say Something.” Laura McClain practices that when she gets on an elevator. She's a nurse in town for a convention.

"I start looking… who, when I'm on elevator, will look at details… what if this happened? Could I describe who I was with? Did he have a brief case? What color did he have hands in his pocket?” said Laura McClain from South Carolina.

You do have to wonder, did anyone ride the elevator with a mass murderer? Did they sense something, but not say something? Those are thoughts that may never have answers.

Paddock killed 58 strangers before killing himself. The obsessive gambler said he sometimes gambled 14 hours straight, and took anti-anxiety medication.

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