Security guard put police on to killer

AN unarmed security guard at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino who found gunman Stephen Paddock has been hailed a hero.

The security guard has been identified as Jesus Campos by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.

He was injured after Paddock, 64, fired at him through a hotel room door.

Mr Campos was hit in the leg and was only armed with a baton at the time that America’s worst shooting in history unfolded.

Mr Campos was the man who made radio contact with police for help.

He subsequently helped authorities locate the 32ndfloor room that Paddock was firing from, a spokesman for the union said.

Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters that the wounded guard then helped a group of police officers clear out rooms on the 32nd floor of the hotel before they finally got to Paddock.

He says Paddock planned to survive and escape but didn’t reveal how.

As Paddock opened fire on a crowd of 30,000 revellers at the Route 91 music festival, police say he also sprayed 200 rounds of gunfire into the Mandalay Hotel hallway.

The shooter had smashed holes in windows to fire at his victims at the country music festival across the Las Vegas Strip.

Mr Campos was on “random patrol” as a security officer at the hotel when he found the shooter, according to Liliana Rodriguez, who identified herself as a co-worker of Mr Campos’ on a GoFundMe page set up for him.

“Any one of us could have been in the position he was in,” Rodriguez wrote.