Authorities have confirmed the dismissal of a veteran Las Vegas police officer who froze in the hallway of a Strip hotel during a 2017 mass shooting as a gunman on the floor above opened fire on a country music festival.
Officer Larry Hadfield, spokesman for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, said Tuesday night that Officer Cordell Hendrex was fired March 20. Hadfield did not offer additional details or answer questions regarding an internal review of the actions of Hendrex and other officers that night.
Police union president Steve Grammas told the Associated Press in an email that Hendrex had been fired because of his actions during the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting. Hendrex acknowledged in a police report that he was"terrified with fear" as the gunman above killed 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
News of Hendrex's firing comes on the heels of the firing of four police officers in Florida as a result of their inaction to the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, where a gunman killed 17 people.
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