Las Vegas musician Bryan Hopkins tells how he and others eluded the shooter’s bullets during the Route 91 Harvest music festival Oct. 1, including taking refuge in a refrigerated compartment and later making dash to safety.
The Heroes
Union official tells Review-Journal that the security guard who first encountered mass shooter Stephen Paddock was preparing to give interviews on Thursday when he left his Las Vegas hotel, possibly to seek medical attention.
Christina Stewart had only two things on her mind as rapid-fire bullets rained down on the Route 91 Harvest Festival: get out alive and warn her fellow air traffic controllers.
Richard Kuna was at the end of the Deuce line when he parked the double-decked bus near Mandalay Bay to briefly look for a passenger’s lost wallet just after 10 p.m. on Oct. 1.
After Sunday’s shooting on the Strip, up to 200 school psychologists, nurses, counselors and social workers responded to a request for assistance from local authorities. For some, the experience was “very raw … very emotional.”
It was about 10:08 p.m. on Oct. 1 when Las Vegas police officer Brady Cook caught a bullet below his right shoulder.
The last time Taylor Winston was in Las Vegas, the Marine veteran was shuttling shooting victims to the hospital — in a stolen pickup truck — following the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting.
A Las Vegas cabbie who drove five passengers to safety the night of the mass shooting on the Strip is tired of being framed as a hero. “There were so many other people who put themselves in harm’s way,” Cori Langdon said. “I just stumbled upon it.”
The old ballplayer still sounded distraught after coming to the aid of Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting victims last Sunday.
UFC president Dana White plans to honor the heroes and victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas at UFC 216 and wants as many first responders as possible to be there to witness the event in person.
Bleeding from the neck, a wounded Las Vegas police officer guided several people to safety Sunday with his partner. Meanwhile, his twin, who is also an officer, was called in to work, not knowing if his brother was alive or dead.
Joe DiGaetano, the first Las Vegas Fire Department EMS coordinator on the scene at Sunday’s shooting, saw bodies across the Route 91 Harvest country music festival near Mandalay Bay.
British Troopers Ross Woodward, Chris May and Stuart Finlay planned on a night of drinking and gambling in Las Vegas to blow off some steam following six weeks of rigorous training alongside their American counterparts at Fort Irwin, California.
When Sunday night’s massacre unfolded, “we knew what to do,” Clark County Fire Department Chief Greg Cassell told reporters during a news conference Thursday.
Off-duty Henderson firefighter Anthony Robone was on the west side of the Route 91 Harvest festival stage about halfway back in the crowd with his girlfriend, brother and three friends when the shooting started Sunday night.