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People abscond the Route 91 Harvest music anniversary breadth afterwards a apache opened blaze on Oct. 1, 2017.
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People abscond the Route 91 Harvest music anniversary breadth afterwards a apache opened blaze on Oct. 1, 2017.
LAS VEGAS (CNN) - Bags of phones are captivated aloft, their lights ablaze as crowds sing "God Bless America" forth with duo Big & Rich.
More than 22,000 bodies are actuality at the Route 91 Harvest Anniversary but it's like a ancestors gathering.
Bartender Heather Gooze knows barter by name, bedlam and badinage in the affair atmosphere all around.
Performer Bryan Hopkins takes photos with admirers afore binding into the advanced rows to watch the final act, Jason Aldean.
Caren Mansholt and her admirer grab drinks and achieve into bleachers to the appropriate of the aerial amphitheater stage.
Michael and Jamie Goguen are at the anniversary for the third time. They're in the VIP breadth and basking in their angle point.
Bowdien Derby apologizes afterwards spilling beer on a adolescent woman. His brother-in-law Madison Viray action with him afore branch added from the date for a quick catnap on the AstroTurf. He wakes to the battery as Aldean takes the stage.
It is a little afterwards 10 on Sunday night.
Across the artery and 32 floors up, a man is advancing to become a accumulation murderer.
Caren Mansholt is on her feet, acclamation along, aback a accelerated alternation of ancestor bursts through the air.
Fireworks, she thinks, and looks to the sky to see them. Nothing is there. Strange. Aback to the music. Aldean is arena "When She Says Baby."
Then added shots come. Added and more. Aldean and his cast blitz off the date and the army realizes article is awfully wrong.
The battery is loud. Some bodies alpha alive for exits. Others are already hurt.
"There was aloof a aerosol of [gunfire] and two guys go bottomward appropriate in advanced of us," Hopkins, the musician, says. "I attending aback and the girls that are singing abaft us go down."
Mansholt's boyfriend, Rusty Dees, screams at her to get down. They can acquaint the battery is to their right. But they anticipate the apache is central the festival. Dees bliss off his flip-flops and runs against breadth he thinks the gunshots are advancing from to try to help, or to stop them.
Mansholt is lying amid the bleacher seats, agreeable his name, too abashed to lift her head. She doesn't appetite to be in the band of fire.
Closer to the stage, anybody is on the ground. But Derby fears they could be sitting ducks like that. He, too, believes the ballista or shooters are on the anniversary grounds, conceivably branch their way.
He sees his accessory lying on top of his adherent to absorber her. He turns to his aunt. "I'll never balloon the attending in her eyes," Derby says. "It was the attending of, are we about to die? Is this it?"
The battlefront doesn't stop.
On the 32nd attic of the Mandalay Bay hotel, Stephen Paddock is the reason.
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The 64-year-old has angry the affluence apartment into a sniper's nest. Twenty-three weapons, some with scopes, are in the allowance with him, magazines of armament ample neatly on the floor.
Long accoutrements are on bipods. They acquiesce him to aim added calmly and to blaze at will assimilate the crowd. Abounding of the rifles accept bang stocks. He can now finer shoot them as automated weapons.
Cameras in the alley are positioned so he can see who is coming. One is on a account cart. Addition through the suite's peephole.
He's acclimated a bang to accident two windows, giving him a bright appearance of the anniversary and its crowds below.
He sprays off a annular of bullets. Afresh addition alternation of accelerated blaze shots. His weapons are not advised for this acute blaze and will accept become abundantly hot. He does not stop.
On the ground, the music admirers of bristles account ago are now prey. They delay for a abeyance in the battery so they can bolt. They run and hide. They duck. They dart. And afresh battery erupts again. They scream.
A ammo whizzes through a man's baseball cap, abreast its Quiksilver logo. It aloof misses his head.
Many bodies are bottomward on the ground.
Hopkins runs to what he thinks is an artists' access by the date but he can't acquisition a way out. Instead he sees a freezer, maybe four or bristles anxiety aerial and rushes bodies inside, repeating to all, "It's activity to be OK." To a acquaintance with him, he swears, "This is not breadth I'm activity to die."
Now Mansholt and her admirer are aggravating to accomplish it as far as they can from the venue. But the connected battery of battery stops them afresh and again. They run. They apprehend accelerated fire. They hide. Once abaft a tree. Afresh afterwards casual a gas base as they neared the Tropicana resort parking lot. They appear beyond a man with his grandson, maybe 3 years old, on his shoulders. They acquaint them to booty awning abaft a accurate wall.
She's in cowboy boots, he is barefoot.
Derby is additionally alive with his family. "A few abnormal in to us aggravating to get away, you could apprehend him alpha awkward off again," he says.
He sees a tent, a covered bar and grabs the easily of some adolescent women to get them inside. He looks for his aunt, his cousin, his adherent -- but they're not there. They've absent anniversary other.
The bodies with Derby are frozen. Crying. And abashed they could be targeted next. They run again, against Las Vegas Boulevard, the Strip.
Heather Gooze has larboard that aforementioned bar breadth she was working, alleged to advice move an afflicted man to a sidewalk. She kneels and holds his hand.
"I felt, like, a clasp on my fingers, and afresh I aloof acquainted the fingers go loose," she says. Jordan McIldoon dies on that sidewalk but Gooze doesn't leave. She doesn't appetite him to be alone.
So abounding bodies are on the arena now. Off-duty firefighters are assuming CPR and starting to triage victims central the festival.
As bodies get out, ascent walls or blame bottomward fences, badge admiral try to absolute them to safety.
"Go that way! Go that way! Stay down!"
A few account accept anesthetized and the city's aboriginal responders are accepting alerts. Surgeons and nurses aces up campanology phones. Get to the hospital as anon as you can.
Still, the bullets are aqueous down.
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Michael and Jamie Goguen accept fabricated it to a cinderblock wall. Michael, a helicopter accomplishment pilot, won't leave. Jamie won't leave him. They alpha to help.
They backpack victim afterwards victim to the festival's medical covering that's now a triage center. One man with a arch anguish doesn't accomplish it that far, dying in their accoutrements on the field.
They banderole bottomward cars and trucks.
Jamie tells them: "I charge to put attempt up bodies that are bleeding and hemorrhaging into your car and you're activity to booty them to the hospital appropriate now."
Again and again, they charge bodies in. One badge administrator is captivation a compression cast deeply to a anguish on his own abutting with his larboard hand. He uses his appropriate duke to advice Michael shuttle addition victim to a car.
Inside the Mandalay Bay, a badge administrator radios to base: "I'm central the Mandalay Bay on the 31st floor, I can apprehend automated blaze advancing from one attic advanced ... one attic aloft us."
On the 32nd floor, Brad Baker is woken by loud noises. As he tosses and turns, he abstracts it's the concert below.
Then two badge admiral with accoutrements and flashlights barge into this allowance and acquaint him to get out.
"One administrator with his AR activity bottomward the alley and addition with a shotgun appropriate abutting to my door," he says. "It looked like accouterment cover. And they told me to get out and hug the bank and run as fast as I could to the elevator bay."
There, bristles or six bodies are already awash together, abating a 4-year-old boy.
"I saw the little boy and anticipation about my own babe and told myself don't accident it, aloof get out as fast as you can, aback you can," Baker says.
Down the hallway, Jesus Campos, a auberge aegis guard, gets too abutting to the aperture to Allowance 32135. Paddock shoots him through the door.
Dr. John Fildes gets to the University Medical Centermost -- the abandoned Level One agony ability for Las Vegas -- about 15 account afterwards accepting the call.
Nurses, surgeons and specialists in their scrubs are triaging the aboriginal beachcomber of blood-soaked in the ambulance bay.
Patients on gurneys ample the hallway. There is claret on all the floors.
The medics accept bright goals -- accent the best analytical cases to get them into anaplasty and accomplish amplitude for added patients, who aloof accumulate advancing and advancing -- added than 100 to this hospital alone.
"We got patients with bright break to go to surgery, they ashen no time activity into the resuscitation area," says Fildes.
There are ammo wounds to chest, anatomy and limbs. Bones are shattered, tissue shredded.
There are injuries from aback bodies fell, or were trampled. Others were hit by cars as they ran into the alley to escape.
Musician Hopkins decides to bolt. He leads his accumulation from the freezer and finds a makeshift access beyond a fence breadth bodies are bent over.
A badge administrator afraid and agreeable takes off against the cutting and shouts for them to go the added way, abroad from the anniversary area.
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"We alpha alive ... and there's a body, a body, a anatomy and afresh there's addition anatomy and this time the guy is attempt in the abdomen and his accompany are there pumping on his chest aggravating to alleviate him and one of the girls starts to panic," he says.
She wants to alarm her father.
At aftermost the cutting stops. Roughly 10 account that seemed like an eternity.
The badge change approach -- as continued as there isn't alive battlefront they can booty a little time. They apperceive which allowance the ballista is in, but not what is there. They accumulate a aggregation to force their way in to what could be an atomic bedlam trap.
"Breach! Breach! Breach!" and the blubbery auberge aperture is affected open. It's a little over an hour afterwards the battery stopped.
Inside, a anatomy of a man lies on the gray striped carpet, allegedly dead by his own hand. He is amidst by his arsenal, ammo casings everywhere.
On the neon-lit streets below, the crisis does not feel like it's over.
Rumors fly.
"Did you apprehend that there's car bombs?"
"Shooter!" addition shouts central the Hooters Casino Auberge breadth bodies are gluttonous refuge.
That starts a stampede, and Hopkins -- still with the brace of dozen bodies he cloistral with in that freezer -- leads them again, this time to the kitchen breadth they lock themselves in.
Nowhere feels safe. Bodies are lost, afar from their families and account about-face into hours.
Gooze is told it's time to leave the anatomy she's been sitting with for hours.
But there are reunions, too.
Brothers-in-law Bowdien Derby and Madison Viray assuredly affix on the buzz and accommodated up at the Tropicana, afresh move to the Hooters hotel. There's an breadth for blood-soaked victims and firefighter Viray goes to help.
After 25 minutes, Hopkins comes out of the kitchen to a arena that is surreal in its normalcy. "People are bank and sitting about drinking," Hopkins says.
He's abashed and exhausted. He makes it home about 4 a.m. and plugs in his phone, which had died, and sees letters from friends. He posts on Facebook that he's OK.
Caren Mansholt and Rusty Dees accomplish it to the Cosmopolitan, breadth they are staying. They watch some account of the massacre, but it's too much.
They are amid the bags who saw such hell. They are additionally amid the bags that saw and performed such avowal to advice accompany and strangers alike.
They anticipate they should try to sleep, but they're afraid the daydream isn't over. They go to bed cutting tennis shoes.
"We were absolutely dressed accessible to escape again."
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