LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Additional body-worn camera footage released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is shedding new light on the police response to a shooting on the UNLV campus last month.
The department on Tuesday released an additional two hours and 30 minutes of footage from three officers' body cameras.
All three videos can be viewed on LVMPD's YouTube page here:
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In one of the three videos released Tuesday, you can see a metro police officer rushing to the scene after reports of an active shooter came out.
While the officer is driving to the campus, you can hear radio traffic indicating the suspect is in the hallway of BEH building. It's not clear what floor or hallway the shooter was in.
When the officer arrived at the scene, he was seen grabbing a high-powered weapon from the trunk of his police unit.
The video shows the officer directing students away from the campus as he heads toward the BEH building.
Moments later he is joined by an additional officer. The officers make their way inside the building through a side door.
While they search the area, you can hear gunshots in the background.
Shortly after, you can hear the radio traffic indicating that shots had been fired.
"5-14, shots being fired."
Following the exchange over the radio, the body cam footage shows the officers exit through the main entrance of BEAM Hall.
"Hey, is that the suspect?," said one of the officers once outside of the business
building.
The gunman, who killed three university faculty members and injured a fourth at the Lee Business School on Dec. 6, was killed in a shootout with University Police Services officers.
He's since been identified as Anthony Polito, a man who'd sought employment at the university but been denied multiple times.
There were no known connections between Polito and the faculty members he shot that day — at least none that have been revealed publicly.
Polito had an apartment in Henderson and was employed at St. Rose University.
