“University of Nevada Shooting: Police Mistake Gunman for Bystander in Deadly Attack”

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Police officers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, mistakenly identified a gunman as a bystander during a deadly shooting incident at the university’s business school. Body camera footage and police accounts reveal that the officers urged the gunman to leave the building, unaware that he was the suspect they were searching for, as well as the person responsible for the victims’ injuries.

On December 6, a shooting occurred in the business school at the University of Nevada, resulting in the deaths of three professors and one professor being injured. The two Las Vegas police officers, armed and ready, ascended the stairs to a second-floor walkway that overlooked the ground floor of the business school. The footage released on Wednesday shows Anthony Polito, the shooter, briefly appearing in over five hours of recorded material. This marked the first visual confirmation of the shooter’s presence inside the building after he had opened fire on the upper floors of the business school.

In the video, Polito can be seen wearing a long black trench coat over a white shirt, calmly navigating the first floor of the business school while officers swarmed the area. His hand was visible at his side, and there was no indication that he was armed. The officers, pointing towards an exit, shouted at Polito to leave the building as they continued along the walkway.

Prior to the shooter’s rampage, students and staff were enjoying lunch and playing games near the business school, which is situated across from the university’s student union. Polito exited the building, drew his weapon, and engaged in a shootout with university police officers. He was subsequently killed, with no harm inflicted on anyone outside the building.

Undersheriff Andrew Walsh of Clark County stated that it was apparent the officers were unaware they had encountered the gunman inside the building. At the time, they did not possess a description of the shooter and were aware of the presence of other police resources on the first floor.

Sheriff Kevin McMahill had previously mentioned that the university police officers had mistaken the gunman for a professor. However, the body camera footage from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department did not capture the shootout. In an earlier video released by McMahill, Polito can be seen descending a flight of stairs outside the business school, his long black coat swaying. As the shooter turned around with his weapon in hand, one of the university police officers took cover behind a patrol car.

While the motive for the shooting has not been specified by the police, it has been revealed that Polito was facing financial difficulties and had been rejected for a teaching position at UNLV and other Nevada schools. After teaching business at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, for over 15 years, he resigned from his tenured post in 2017.

The three professors who lost their lives in the UNLV shooting were Naoko Takemaru, aged 69, an esteemed author and associate professor of Japanese studies; Cha Jan “Jerry” Chang, aged 64, an associate professor in the business school’s Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology department; and Patricia Navarro Velez, aged 39, an accounting professor specializing in research related to cybersecurity disclosures and data analytics. The identity of the injured victim, a visiting professor aged 38, has not been disclosed.

Police authorities have announced that additional body camera footage will be released in the upcoming weeks, providing further insight into the incident.