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A hallway on the 33rd floor of Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, one floor above the suite where Stephen Paddock fired from, Oct. 3, 2017.
Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 | 2 a.m.
A San Diego man in Las Vegas for last weekend's county music festival says he stayed in a Mandalay Bay hotel room directly below gunman Stephen Paddock and that Paddock complained repeatedly that he was playing his music too loudly.
Albert Garzon said he didn't realize until after Paddock's deadly rampage — he killed 59 people, including himself, and wounded another 500 as he sprayed gunfire from the 32nd floor of the hotel Sunday night — that the gunman was the person who had called security on him.
Garzon told San Diego Fox 5 that after he returned to his 31st floor room, he looked out the window and saw a curtain flapping in the wind from a broken window in Paddock's room above. He could not be reached for comment.
At some point before the concert, Garzon said he was partying in his room with his wife, Jessica, and two friends when security guards knocked on his door and asked him to turn down his music.
"Security came up to our room and said, you have a guest right above you that is complaining you guys are being too loud," he said. "I didn't think twice about it. I said, yeah, we will turn the music down."
About a half hour or 45 minutes later, Garzon said, a different set of security guards knocked on his door. They told him: ''Hey bud, this is your second time. You have a guest above you that is complaining again, so we have to ask you to turn it down," he said.
Garzon said they warned him if they had to contact him a third time, his guests would have to leave.
Garzon said he went to the concert but left early after he got a funny feeling. His wife and two friends stayed at the show and were there when the shooting began.
"As I'm leaving the hotel, my wife is calling me, screaming, saying that they are being shot at," he said. Garzon told Fox 5 he got separated from his friends and wife after the shooting, and couldn't get back to the hotel for at least 14 hours because the strip was locked down.
