SHOOTER TOOK HIS POSITION AND APPEAR TO BE TWO SHOT OUT
WINDOWS AND LOOKING INTO THAT. ONE OF THE WITNESSES WHO WERE
THERE, MIKE KRONK IS ON THE PHONE WITH US AND AS I
UNDERSTAND IT, YOUR FRIEND WAS ONE WHO WAS SHOT.
HOW IS HE DOING AND HOW ARE YOU DOING?
>> AS FAR AS I KNOW, HE'S IN SURGERY RIGHT NOW.
THE PROGNOSIS IS GOOD. I'M IN CONTACT WITH HIS
DAUGHTER. AS SOON AS I FIND OUT HE IS OUT,
I WILL HEAD OVER AND SEE HIM. I'M SURE THEY ARE QUITE BUSY
THERE. HE WAS RIGHT NEXT TO ME AND WE
HEARD THE GUNSHOTS GO OFF. I THINK EVERYBODY THOUGHT THEY
WERE FIREWORKS AT FIRST. MY BUDDY SAID HEY, I GOT.
I KNEW IT WAS COMING FROM THE ONE HOTEL THERE.
I ACTUALLY SAW THE DISTANCE FROM THE SHOTS WERE UP IN A HOTEL.
THAT'S WHY WE WERE YELLING AT EVERYBODY TO GET DOWN.
>> I UNDERSTAND IN ADDITION YOUR BUDDY WHO GOT SHOT I BELIEVE
THREE TIMES, YOU WERE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SOMEONE WHO WAS
SHOT AND UNFORTUNATELY PASSED AWAY?
>> A GROUP OF FOUR PEOPLE IN THE BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK TO GET
HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AND FINALLY WE WERE HEADING BACK TO WHERE WE
START AND THERE WAS AN AMBULANCE AND WE STOPPED AND MADE A
TRANSFER, BUT SOMEBODY'S SON PASSED AWAY THERE IN MY ARMS ON
THE CURBSIDE. IT WAS QUITE A NIGHT.
>> WHAT MUST HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND.
TELL ME ABOUT WHEN YOU WERE RUNNING OUT.
WAS IT VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND A WAY OUT AND WE HAD A LOT OF
WITNESSES TELL US THEY WERE PINNED IN.
OF COURSE THIS WAS A CONCERT AND THERE WERE WALLS UP.
THOSE MOMENTS MUST HAVE BEEN CHAOS.
>> IT WAS VERY CHAOTIC, BUT MY BUDDY WAS SHOT AND THERE WAS NO
WAY I'M GOING TO LEAVE HIM AFTER THE KIND OF VOLLEYS OF SHOTS
STOPPED, MOST PEOPLE JUMPED OVER AND I'M SURE IT WAS UTTER CHAOS.
PEOPLE WERE STEPPING ON EACH OTHER AND TWO OTHER PEOPLE WITH
ME THAT I DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
I WAS STAYING WITH MY BUDDY. I THOUGHT WE WERE SAFE AND MOST
PEOPLE WERE GONE AND WE WERE IN A SAFE AREA.
WE MADE A DECISION TO GET THEM OUT TOWARDS THE BACK WHERE
SUPPOSEDLY THERE WAS HELP OUT THERE.
>> HE WAS SHOT THREE TIMES AND DID HE REMAIN CONSCIOUS.
>> WE KEPT HIM CONSCIOUS. KEEP YOUR FINGER IN THERE AND
SHIRTS TO KEEP IT COMPRESSED. HIS FINGER NEVER LEFT THE BULLET
HOLE IN HIS CHEST. >> WHERE WAS HE SHOT?
>> IN THE UPPER CHEST AREA. THAT SHOT THE ONE WHERE THE
FINGER IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE. >> WHERE WERE YOU GUYS STANDING
WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTED? >> FACING THE STAGE WE WERE ON
THE RIGHT SIDE. PARALLEL IN FRONT OF THE STAGE.
WE WERE RIGHT UP CLOSE. >> YOU ENCOUNTERED THE OTHER
PERSON. I DON'T KNOW IF I QUITE
UNDERSTOOD. YOU WERE IN AN AMBULANCE OR
WAITING FOR THE AMBULANCE AND HELD ON TO HIM?
>> IT'S KIND OF CRAZY. THERE WAS NO AMBULANCE.
IT WAS NOT A SECURED ZONE. THERE WAS A PRIVATE PICKUP TRUCK
AND WE LOADED FOUR WOUNDED PEOPLE IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK
AND RODE WITH THEM TO GET TO THE HOSPITAL.
AS WE WENT DOWN -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT STREET WE WERE ON.
IT WAS BLOCKED OFF BECAUSE OF THE ACTIVE SHOOTER AND WE HAD TO
TURN AROUND AND AS WE WERE TURNING AROUND, WE RAN INTO AN
AMBULANCE AND I SCREAMED AND STOPPED THEM.
WE WERE ON THE CURBSIDE THERE DOING THIS INTERVIEW WITH MATT
EARLIER. THAT'S WHERE WE DID THE TRANSFER
OF OUR WOUNDED INTO THE AMBULANCE.
AS WE WERE TRANSFERRING THE ONE YOUNG MAN, HE PASSED AWAY.
>> HOW DID YOU KEEP YOUR COMPOSURE AS YOU WERE LOADING
THOSE PEOPLE YOU DESCRIBED INTO THAT PICKUP TRUCK AND THE
BULLETS WERE STILL FLYING? >> WE WERE TRYING TO -- THE
BULLETS WERE STOPPED BY THEM. WE DID WAIT AND THERE MIGHT HAVE
BEEN SHOTS GOING OFF. IT WAS ALL A BLUR RIGHT NOW.
IT'S PRETTY SURREAL. ONCE WE GOT HIM BACK, THERE WERE
A NUMBER OF SHOTS BY THEN. THEY HAD DONE THEIR JOBS.
I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. HE WOULDN'T HAVE LEFT ME.
>> OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO YOU AND GIVE OUR BEST TO YOUR FRIEND AND
HOPE HE IS OUT OF SURGERY SOON AND ON HIS WAY TO RECOVERY.
YOU WERE QUITE BRAVE AND HEROIC YOURSELF.
>> THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DO WHAT YOU DID, MIKE.
>> THANK YOU. THERE WERE MANY, MANY, MANY MORE
PEOPLE MORE HEROIC THAN I WAS. IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE ALL THE
CIVILIANS AND POLICE OFFICERS