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FILE - This Oct. 3, 2017, file photo shows the Mandalay Bay resort and casino, right, overlooking an outdoor festival grounds across the street, left, in Las Vegas. Officer Cordell Hendrex , a veteran Las Vegas police officer who was fired for hesitating in a downstairs casino-hotel hallway while a gunman in October 2017 carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has been reinstated to his job, authorities said Friday March 13, 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Vegas officer fired for inaction in 2017 massacre reinstated

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 3, 2017, file photo shows the Mandalay Bay resort and casino, right, overlooking an outdoor festival grounds across the street, left, in Las Vegas. A veteran Las Vegas police officer who froze in the hallway of the casino-hotel as a gunman carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history has been fired from the force, police said. Officer Cordell Hendrex was fired from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on March 20, 2019, police spokesman Officer Larry Hadfield said late Tuesday, July 2. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Vegas police fire officer who hesitated during mass shooting

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press