Las Vegas police fired a veteran officer who froze in the hallway of a hotel during a 2017 mass shooting as a gunman on the floor above opened fire on a country music festival, authorities confirm.
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police confirmed Tuesday that the department fired a veteran officer who froze in the hallway of a Las Vegas Strip hotelLas Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Officer Larry Hadfield confirmed Tuesday night that Officer Cordell Hendrex was fired March 20. Hadfield did not offer additional details or answer questions regarding an internal review of the actions of Hendrex and other officers that night.
Police union president Steve Grammas told The Associated Press in an email that Hendrex had been fired because of his actions during the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting. Hendrex acknowledged in a police report that he was"terrified with fear" as the gunman above killed 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history."I froze right there in the middle of the hall for how long I can't say," he wrote in the report.
Police body camera video released by the department shows Hendrex, along with a rookie officer and three hotel security officers, waiting in the hallway of the 31st floor in the Mandalay Bay casino-resort for about five minutes before moving to a stairwell leading to the 32nd floor, where the gunman was raining bullets onto the crowd below.A phone call to a publicly listed number for Hendrex was not answered Tuesday night.
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