did people really smell the gunpowder or did they just think they did? I missed the gunpowder comments
I am researching that now.
On the fairgrounds:
The panic just goes up your spine. And the smell of gunpowder, it was powerful and everywhere. And I dont have a good sense of smell
https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-t...a-survivors-account-of-the-las-vegas-shooting
Near Mandalay Bay:
I looked up at Mandalay Bay and saw a light flickering, while shots were still ringing out. Was this the shooter? Maybe. I didn't stare long enough to find out.
A few minutes later, the sound stopped, but the chaos continued. As I continued to run from the venue, I saw pickup trucks driving insanely fast with people yelling about hospitals ("Where's the ****ing hospital?" someone shouted.) I saw police and ambulances driving fast towards the festival grounds. By now, I'm near Mandalay Bay keep in mind, no one knew where the gunfire was coming from. I smelled gunpowder. A lot of gunpowder.
https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/las-vegas-shooting-what-it-was-like-at-w506517
Festival grounds:
Ricochets around them echoed the bangs from above, and still "no one knew where the gunfire was coming from," said journalist Mark Gray, who had been covering the concert for Rolling Stone."I smelled gunpowder," he said. "A lot of gunpowder."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...tarted-scenes-from-the-nightmare-in-las-vegas
from Mandalay Bay 32nd floor:
Officers had identified the source of the shooting and arrived outside room 32135 by 10.24pm, 16 minutes after the massacre began. Paddock shot through the door as they approached, wounding a hotel security guard in the leg.
Sonny Morgan, who was on the 32nd floor at the time of the shooting, said: "I could smell the gun powder. It just kept going and going. I honestly thought it was like a terrorist attack, that someone was trying to blow up the hotel."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...e-inside-las-vegas-gunmans-hotel-room-police/
Backstage:
"[My friend and ] had just walked backstage when I heard what I assumed was firecrackers going off. 'Thats really stupid. Why is someone lighting up fireworks in a crowd like this'? I thought to myself. It even smelled like fireworks. But then I realized that the smell was actually gunpowder.
Bullets ricocheted off of metal equipment. We fled, seeking cover behind a nearby tour bus. A man running towards me fell to the ground just five feet away. I thought he had tripped, but then I saw the blood: he had been shot in the leg. Someone called for a belt to use as a tourniquet. I took mine off and I threw it in their direction. We kept running... A girl running alongside me was shot in the neck. She fell to the ground. I don't know what happened to her. I ducked underneath another bus, waiting for the gunfire to stop. But it kept coming. It went on for about 20 minutes in all. It didnt even sound real it sounded like a videotape." Michaela Gallo told Refinery29.
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a12764406/las-vegas-shooting-eyewitness-accounts/
Mandalay Bay (I think the reporter erroneously swapped room numbers)
Another witness, who was staying on the same hotel floor as the gunman, said: I was in room 135 and I heard over the police scanner that the shooting came from room 137. It was non-stop I would say well over 100 rounds.
I called the front desk and she was remarkably calm and said she was aware of the situation and told us to stay in our room. After around 10 to 15 minutes it just kind of stopped. You could smell the gunpowder.
Right before we got out I heard an explosion, maybe a flashbang, but windows were blown out.
The cops came on to the floor and they were clearing rooms room by room and six or seven cops came into our room and we were evacuated.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...oting-as-gunman-opens-fire-from-a3648531.html
I think this is the same witness:
MATTHEWS: Well, what do you make of what do you know right now about this witnesses? What witnesses do we have on the 32nd floor where he was shooting from?
AKERS: Yes, I spoke with one gentleman from Atlanta. He said he was about five rooms away. He was asleep. About between 10:00 and 10:15, he said, he was awoken by hundreds of rounds of shots. And he could smell the gunpowder. He immediately called the front desk. They said they`re aware of an active shooter situation and to remain in his room. So he said he hit the ground and just waited it out. And then eventually, metro police came up and escorted him out of his room and down the 32 floors.
http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/hardball/2017-10-02
That's all I can find at the moment. I think most of these accounts were from October 2. I realize some of these sources are not considered MSM but I am not seeing any other links for my verification sampling. Not getting any hits on Tropicana or Hooters + gunpowder.
I can measure these distances tomorrow.