Storming Las Vegas by John Huddy

Author:John Huddy [Huddy, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: True Crime, General
ISBN: 9780345504708
Google: DxXD5-LezigC
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-02-18T11:00:00+00:00

Sergeant Joe Molinaro of the Henderson Police Department was the first officer to reach the murder scene, where already a large crowd had gathered.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN HUDDY.

Molinaro hears sirens. The cavalry is coming. The airwaves crackle with traffic from incoming sector cars.6

The fire department gets there next. Captain Brian Tilton arrives in an ambulance designated EMS-2. A paramedic supervisor responsible for training other medics, Tilton is a nine-year veteran and future doctorate candidate in emergency medicine. He is barely a mile from the shooting site when he hears the call. He comes in slowly, watching for any sign of trouble. He passes the Target store and the armored car. Tilton parks his ambulance at the end of the parking lot to give other units room to maneuver. Although Tilton is the ranking supervisor, the incoming ambulance and engine companies have priority. They are fully staffed. There are two paramedics in the ambulance, four firemen in the big hook and ladder unit known simply as “the truck,” and four more men in the vehicle the men call “the engine.”

Mentally, Tilton runs through his own protocols: Look past the obvious. Make sure you find all the victims. When you arrive, don’t be like a moth to the flame; take some time to assess the surroundings, make sure that no one’s going to get hurt, and then see if there are additional victims who may not be in plain sight. Right now, however, everything is a blur. Tilton watches a harried police sergeant yelling at people to get back into the store. “Anybody else?” the paramedic says to Molinaro, gesturing at the body on the sidewalk and the driver in the truck.

“No one else right now,” Molinaro says, his answer nearly drowned out by the wail of sirens and the raspy blast of a fire truck horn. Rescue 92 and Engine 947 have arrived. Unit TT-92, the big ladder truck, is close behind. The ambulance, to Tilton’s surprise, pulls alongside the armored truck and stops. Usually fire vehicles stage outside the crime scene until given approval to enter the outer perimeter. Not today.

Michael Weissman, a former navy corpsman who has served with elite recon marine battalions, jumps out of the ambulance along with Mike Hargett. Marty Nelson is the engine captain. Tilton tries to open the armored truck’s front driver door but it is locked. He sees Weissman and points to Prestidge on the sidewalk. “Check out the victim.”

“We already have,” Weissman replies. “Mike just took a look. He’s dead.”

Suddenly there’s a shout from the cabin of the armored car. Marty Nelson is with the driver. “I’ve got a pulse! He’s breathing!” Nelson will treat Ricardo Sosa. “I got off the engine,” Nelson recalls. “I asked the police officer at the scene, ‘Do we have any other patients?’ Because seeing these armored cars, I know that there’s two and sometimes three guards on these trucks. And we only saw the one guard on the ground. And he said, ‘I haven’t looked inside the truck yet.

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