tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032288097291902285.post5018758746060390233..comments2024-03-19T02:43:07.969-04:00Comments on "Time's Up!": Takeover in Las VegasTime's Uphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09908111385466002389noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032288097291902285.post-11707885000524414542013-12-25T22:48:39.179-05:002013-12-25T22:48:39.179-05:00I was at the annex when McKenna took over the jail...I was at the annex when McKenna took over the jail. He ran around in the nude and it was scary as hell. I was only nineteen years old. The cell I was in the back and we could only see McKenna run by with crazed eyes. That's all I remember. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14576757334957388917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032288097291902285.post-37581701874698471452012-07-03T02:56:02.814-04:002012-07-03T02:56:02.814-04:00The story has a few holes in it. Let me help. A ...The story has a few holes in it. Let me help. A short time before the takeover, Shaw and Lorenzo had been transferred over from the main facility due to a planned escape that was thwarted. (that's a whole other story). <br />The officers that were scheduled over at the annex were mostly older, retired military types, or officers that just couldn't get along with the inmates or other co's. CO Murray was a complainer and didn't get along with anybody. Hanson was a meek personality in general and shouldn't of been a CO to begin with. Melton was also a meek type and shouldn't of been a CO. That's why they were there. On graveshift, there was no handling of the inmates. You had the trustees to clean and hand out breakfast and no one else. Most of the time was spent in the control room talking and watching the monitors. Once in a while, a CO would do a walk through.<br />Hanson never hit any "emergency button". There weren't any! Half the buttons and lights on the control panel were either inoperative or broken.<br />The three didn't escape because someone walked by the entrance to the jail proper and saw one of them wearing a Metro uniform shirt unbuttoned.<br />When Shaw and Lorenzo had there shootout, it was only them involved. McKenna was back around two corners by the back isolation cells. He heard the shots and thought it was SWAT coming through the ceiling. He fired some rounds into the concrete ceiling as he made his way to where Lorenzo and Shaw were. Lorenzo died from one round only fired into his heart. Shaw had been hit numerous times by Lorenzo and fell about three feet from him. CO Melton had been handcuffed to one of the booking stalls just a few feet away from the shootout and had been hit by shrapnel in his hand. When he came back to work months later, they scheduled him in the main evidence locker. Hanson and Murray never came back to work. I heard they sued but I don't beleive anything came of their lawsuits.<br />And this business about a sharpshooter in the parking lot is nonsense. The entry door to the jail proper was recessed from the main hallway and faced eastward. You had to go through three sally port doors to gain entry into the front of the booking area. A sharpshooter wouldn't of had the view to shoot into the jail. The first thing you see is the laminated glass protecting the control room. That just doesn't make sense.<br />When McKenna saw his two compatriots dead on the floor, he gave up immediately. He was stripped down, cuffed, and taken to North Las Vegas Jail. He literally had crapped his pants he was so scared.<br />Lorenzo gained power over Hansen, when Hansen opened his cell to give him a mop and bucket. Something he shouldn't of done without another CO present and the inmate handcuffed. It had been long the procedure at the Main jail and the Annex to use sentenced inmates as "trustees". Go figure!RichardRoverehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14453934177430302826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6032288097291902285.post-3645438852933943282012-04-14T23:40:55.645-04:002012-04-14T23:40:55.645-04:00Great story Denny! I know both Pat McKenna and Bob...Great story Denny! I know both Pat McKenna and Bob Stoldal! I just recently signed an affidavit for Pat McKenna's attorney who is trying to keep him alive! I do not believe in the death penalty, and I do know Pat McKenna's family, who are very well respected people in the Las Vegas and Reno area for decades!<br /> Just like Bob Stoldal who is a friend of mine, and also did news stories about me way back in good old Las Vegas! The city of Las Vegas, should make a bronze statue of Bob Stoldal and put it in the Hall Of Fame Broadcaster's! This is were Bob belongs among the elite of the best!<br />Take care Denny my friend..:-)wendymazaroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681054282525176416noreply@blogger.com