John Alessio was conducting a regular traffic stop the night of Oct. 1 when he heard something disturbing over his radio. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer had to leave abruptly to rally with his squad and others. On his way there, when he got back in his car, he could hardly believe what he was hearing over the channel.
“It’s almost like it can’t be true,” Alessio told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “It was like, is this a drill?”
The sound of semi-automatic gunfire rang out on the Las Vegas Strip that night.