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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amelia Neath

UNLV shooter mistaken for bystander as police urged him out of building, video reveals

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Police officers who arrived on the scene during the deadly mass shooting at the University of Nevada mistook the gunman as a bystander and shouted at him to get out of the building, body camera footage reveals.

Hiding within more than five hours worth of body camera footage from 6 December, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police found they caught the gunman on camera, with police even urging him to get out of the building, without knowing he was the person who killed three professors and wounded one person.

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