Stephen Schuck was on the 32nd floor when the Las Vegas mass shooting began. YouTube / TODAY
The hero security guard who was shot during the Las Vegas massacre has gone into hiding after vanishing moments before he was scheduled to speak to the media.
Jesus Campos is yet to be interviewed since being fired upon by Stephen Paddock on October 1 while on the 32nd floorof the Mandalay Bay hotel.
He is thought to have saved lives by distracting the mass murderer as he was firing into a crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival, according to the Daily Mail.
Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock. Photo / AP
Last Thursday (local time), Campos was due to appear at a press conference after being given an award for his bravery, but he abruptly pulled out and vanished.
His disappearance came just hours after MGM Resorts International, which owns the Mandalay Bay, disputed the official timeline of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
The firm rejected any suggestion that hotel staff delayed calling 911 for six minutes after Paddock opened fire.
His union representative said on Saturday that Campos was taken to a clinic shortly afterwards
"Right now I'm just concerned where my member is, and what his condition is. It's highly unusual.
'"I'm hoping everything is OK with him and I'm sure MGM or the union will let [the media] know when we hear something," David Hickey, the president of the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America, told Fox 5 Vegas.
But the man of the moment has still not appeared amid mounting evidence that he wishes to dodge the media.
He cancelled on Sean Hannity as well as CBS, CNN, ABC and NBC on Thursday (local time) while Hickey believed he was staying at a Vegas hotel.
Campos was pictured for the first time since the massacre on October 10 as he accepted an award from his union.
Drapes billow out of broken windows at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip, following a deadly shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. Photo / AP
According to the LA Times, a man was spotted in a white truck outside his home in northern Las Vegas on Sunday.
The licence plate was covered with a towel and, when asked, the driver said he had been hired to guard the house and stop the media getting into Campos' property.
But he did not tell the paper who hired him.
There are also signs reading "No media on property" and "No trespassing" outside Campos' home.
Neighbour Jaime Ruano said: "He's a hero. And nobody knows where he is."
NBC reporter Craig Fiegener, meanwhile, has reported the presence of armed guards outside Campos' home.
It comes as confusion builds over what actually happened to him on the fateful night.
Jesus Campos (pictured) was due to appear at a press conference after being given an award for his bravery, but he vanished.
The latest chronology raised a series of questions about whether officers were given information quickly enough to possibly have a chance to take out the gunman before he could carry out the bloodshed.
But according to resort officials, it was no more than 40 seconds between the time Campos used his walkie talkie to call for help and Paddock opening fire on the crowd from two windows in his suite.
Earlier in the investigation, police had said that Paddock shot through his door and wounded Campos after the guard distracted him from firing on the crowd out the windows.
Campos' union president said the latest timeline does not dispute the assertion that the guard is "still a hero, saving his co-worker, possibly stopping additional shots", reported Stephanie Wash.
9.59pm: Campos approaches Paddock's room looking for an alarm going off at a door nearby - likely from the stairwell. He is shot at and injured. He immediately notifies hotel security. Stephen Schuck appears to back up this account.
10.05pm: First shots fired by suspect.
10.12pm: First two officers arrive on the 31st floor.
10.15pm: The last shots are fired from the suspect for reasons unknown.
10.17pm: The first two officers arrive on the 32nd floor from the 31st.
10.18pm: Campos, who has been stricken for almost 20 minutes, tells police about Paddock's room.
10.26-10.30pm: With Paddock quiet, eight more cops arrive and they decide to evacuate the rooms on the floor.
10.55pm: Eight officers arrive in the stairwell next to the suspect's room and find the door tampered with and a camera on a room service cart outside; they decide to hold off.
11.20pm: Paddock's room is breached and police enter the room to find him dead.
ORIGINAL TIMELINE
This is the original timeline of events given out by police last Wednesday.
10.05pm: Paddock fires his first shots on the crowd, as seen on CCTV.
10.12pm: First two officers arrive on the 31st floor and announce gunfire is coming from directly above them.
10.14pm: Guard Jesus Campos approaches Paddock's room and is shot, but only injured.
10.15pm: The last shots are fired from the suspect, per bodycam, due to Campos' intervention.
10.17pm: The first two officers arrive on the 32nd floor from the 31st.
10.18pm: Campos tells the cops he was shot and gives them the exact location of the suspect's room.
10.26-10.30pm: With Paddock quiet, eight additional cops arrive and they decide to evacuate the rooms on the floor.
10.55pm: Eight officers arrive in the stairwell next to the suspect's room and find the door tampered with and a camera on a room service cart outside; they decide to hold off.
