One guest at the Aria told her story to Irish media: "All of a sudden there was a bit of a commotion and people started to run. At first, we weren't really sure what was happening but I could hear popping sounds and obviously that was gunfire, but we didn't realise it at the time. Then people were running, it was like a stampede. Because there was such confusion, no one knew what was happening. The reception area cleared out - people lay down on the floor. We ran out to the front of the hotel, people were talking, said there was shooting at the Mandalay Bay hotel, which wasn't too far from us because we could hear the gunfire. When we walked back through the casino to get to lifts to the room, there were no staff to say what was happening other than pit boss - it was eerie." Note the highlighted sentence above: this tourist cannot have been hearing gunfire from the Mandalay Bay. Firstly, it is one mile away from her location, and she is indoors. Secondly, like so many in Las Vegas that night, she was only alerted to the fact that something was going on by the presence of (or hearsay about) active shooters reported at her specific location, so she only learned about the massacre at the concert venue after the fact. Because she has since been told by the media that there was only one shooter and only one shooting episode in Vegas that night, she is assuming that the Mandalay Bay is located close to the resort she was staying in, thus conflating the brief gunfire she heard at or outside the Aria with the heavy gunfire that came from the Mandalay an hour beforehand.

So the suggestion that panic 'spread up the Strip' from the festival venue doesn't make sense. There are many accounts from guests who were at Caesar's Palace and other resorts describing how they had no clue that anything had gone down at the Mandalay Bay until they were spooked 'in place', and only then stopped what they were doing to check out what had happened earlier.

We also have footage of panic erupting at Caesar's Palace, a scene for which the first police report of gunfire comes in at about 11:28pm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG262CFeE9A Then there is this brief footage of panic at the MGM Grand resort:

[DTS]Cammi👠316 @cammi316 OMG omg someone just started shooting!!!!!!! @crazykiller1320 and I are at MGM locked in with others @Ddm1870 @cbarrow711 In responses to her followers, this eyewitness tweeted these real-time updates on the situation at MGM Grand: https://www.sott.net/image/s21/425582/full/MGM_shooters.jpg Note that there is no corresponding police report about this incident at the MGM Grand on the published scanner audio, and thus absolutely no mention of it in the media, even as a 'false report'.

We referred to Rene Downs' testimony in our previous article. Downs filmed the scene on the ground floor of the Bellagio around two hours after panic erupted there at about 11:20pm. She also posted a second video showing the scene there the morning afterwards. Downs has since given interviews detailing her account, and others present at the Bellagio have corroborated it. This complete interview with Downs is worth listening to, but here is an abridged version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z89D8pxjJtg Note again that Downs - and apparently everyone around her at the Bellagio - only learned about the massacre after the gunfire and panic at her hotel, one hour after the shooting ended at the concert venue, along with reports about shootings at other nearby resorts, at which point everyone conflated the Mandalay event with the later events and spent the next few terrifying hours assuming - correctly, it seems - that gunmen were prowling all around them. So, again, the melee at the entrance to the Bellagio cannot have been panic caused by some 'delayed fear-response' travelling up The Strip; it has to have been provoked by a separate, later gunfire incident there, or very close by.

From her room upstairs at Planet Hollywood, Megan Thompson saw people running across pedestrian bridges connecting the Aria resort with the Cosmopolitan and Planet Hollywood, with their hands raised as SWAT police searched for a gunman. From her vantage point, she could also see commotion as police arrived at the Bellagio. The following video is excerpted from her full account published here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w7DWSJc6RU Note Thompson's final comment that she hoped that pictures of the gunmen would not be 'shown all over the news', presumably in the expectation that doing so would give them the attention they craved. At the time, she couldn't have known that all reference to gunmen shooting up and down the Strip would be completely left out of the official account of what happened in Las Vegas that night.

Meanwhile, downstairs at Planet Hollywood, here is footage taken by Dimitri Ioakim from inside the resort's casino shortly after gunfire was heard or reported inside or nearby: https://www.facebook.com/dioakim/videos/10211737869735756/ Orora Monroe was also inside the Planet Hollywood casino when, she says, she heard loud gunfire, coming from either inside or adjacent to the resort, which she estimates occurred at about 11:20pm. Unaware that anything had happened at the Route 91 Festival, Monroe fled in panic as the casino floor emptied, remaining in lock down at that resort until 3am, when she returned to her room at the adjoining Elara by Hilton hotel.

In the following video - which is an abridged version of the testimony she provides here - Monroe describes the gunfire she heard, the reports she heard that night from casino staff and Metro police about similar incidents up and down The Strip, and the aftermath as Las Vegas went silent about 'all the other stuff' that happened there that night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4_ySNy-Ygk