Newly revealed court documents claim that a Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas housekeeper spotted a hotel guest with semi-automatic assault weapons in his room back in November 2014.
According toTMZ, the 24th floor guest had weapons that were set up to fire at large crowds, including a high-powered rifle and scope positioned to face the Las Vegas Strip. Thanks to the housekeeper, the guest was reported and later sentenced to a 40-month prison stint.
The documents are part of a lawsuit against Mandalay Bay stemming from last year's Route 91 Harvest attack at the hands of a white male terrorist. On the night of Oct. 1., the white male terrorist opened fire on the festival crowd from the 32nd floor during Jason Aldean's set, ultimately killing 58 people.
In the suit, victims allege that the hotel showed negligence by not preventing the Route 91 Harvest shooting. The hotel, however, has argued that no legal duty was owed to the victims as no previous incident or similar warning had taken place.
Previously, in a suit filed in January on behalf of more than 100 victims and their families, attorney James Frantz alleged that hotel operators knew they were a "soft target" for a mass shooting. "They knew about the potential for this," Frantz toldABC 7 News at the time. "It was completely foreseeable this would happen and it did happen . . . This hotel chain knew that and they did nothing to secure their property." Another suit was filed in November.
