Why It Took Police 72 Minutes to Find Las Vegas Shooter

A police officer points his weapon at a car driving down closed Tropicana Ave. near Las Vegas Boulevard after a reported mass shooting at a country music festival nearby in Las Vegas on Oct. 2, 2017. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

It took more than an hour from the first call to police to the point where a SWAT team blew up the door to the hotel room of Stephen Paddock, the shooter who killed at least 59 and wounded over 500 on Sunday, Oct. 1.

At 10:08 p.m., the police received the first call about shots fired at Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Las Vegas Boulevard.