[Gunshots]
We’ve got an active shooter. Inside the fair grounds.
That first round of 100-200 rounds went off Kack kack kack kack kack...and I grabbed her arm and we just started running.
So many people are dead.
Are you kidding?
No, I’m not kidding. Go go go!
Oh my god.
Another head shot.
Mandalay Bay on the north side.
It’s okay—
It’s not okay!
We’re going to be okay, guys.
That next morning it was silent. The air felt sad.
The wind wasn’t blowing the same. The cars were driving slower.
It just didn’t… it felt unreal you know.
And it’s so weird that you can feel it literally in the air.
I can’t even sleep for three nights now, you know?
Because thinking about what happened at the scene. Sometimes I tear.
I see that there’s glass falling down from the 32 floor, so I said, ‘This is it.
This is real now.
So I went to Mandalay Bay road.
It was really, really bad. People were dying; they were on the floor; there was a lot of blood.
Obviously this is a tragic incident.
And one that we never experienced in this valley.
We’ve got first responders that are literally covered in blood.
As a result of this there are a lot of victims that have not been identified as of this point.
It’s been a hugely traumatic for all of us and for our visitors
who love country music, this is a crazed lunatic full of hate.
We went from the highest high to the lowest low possible.
I heard her screaming, “don’t leave me, don’t leave me."
We saw people with bike racks turned sideways with bodies on them and they’re walking them down the street.
carrying people...to the triage center that was by the airport.
My ultimate fear was that she had to live another day to see her daughter
and that’s all I could think about was her screaming, “don’t leave me behind”
and knowing that there’s a kid behind that we have to go home to.
[Gun Shots]
I was at one of the hospitals, and it was complete pandemonium.
There were people that were shirtless, shoeless, bloody…
And they were saying, “I’m bloody and I don’t even know whose blood this is."
Family members crying, friends, people just
so confused and I think
there were a lot of people too that didn’t know where their loved ones were.
Some of those families who didn’t know where their loved one was,
they were the ones that didn’t know if they were alive of if they were in a hospital or if they were dead and um,
just waiting to hear.
The number of people that have died associated with this event has increased.
Right now we’re using the number of 58.
The number of injured, we are using the number of 515.
May God bless the souls of the live’s who were lost.
May god give us the grace of healing.
And may god provide the grieving families with strength to carry on.
There's a time and place for a political debate, but now is the time to unite as a country.
If right now is not the time when will be the time?
This is 3 days after literally the biggest mass shooting in the country, 500 people are in the hospital injured.
It is the time to talk about gun violence.
Sunday was too late to talk about gun violence.
So we need to have this conversation.
I think when you get somebody that’s as determined as this individual was,
there going to use some means to create the havoc and destruction that they want to create.
Whether a weapon was obtained legally or illegally, it doesn’t matter how much we restrict things,
they’re gonna find a way around it.
If somebody wants to do damage, they’re gonna find a way to do damage.
He’s wealthy, he’s resourceful, he wanted to hurt people there’s no law you could put in place to stop that.
I’ve been on both sides of the fence;
I’ve seen my dad literally protect me with a firearm and I’ve woken up in the middle of the night because I’ve heard gunshots going off in my neighborhood.
You have a lot of people all across the state that love their guns.
And you do have a lot of responsible gun owners in Nevada.
Honestly today’s a bit of a dual purpose for me.
I’m out here to get ready and prepared but uh...I’m a paramedic out here in Las Vegas and was involved on Sunday.
And uh, shooting’s kind of a way to clear my head and process everything that’s happened.
Route 91, sounded like an automatic weapon.
Automatic fire.
I’m inside the Mandalay bay on the 31st floor I can hear the automatic weapon coming from one floor ahead.
It’s just pure… slaughter and murder of innocent people gathered with their backs to you.
You’re just unloading fully automatic weapons from an elevated position into, essentially shooting fish in a barell.
Were any of the weapons modified from their original purchasing?
We believe so. We haven’t broken ‘em down, the ATF hasn’t evaluated them yet but we believe I don’t know whether the sear pin have been filed or if they’ve been converted to fully automatic.
It is ridiculous to me that an individual can take a semi-automatic weapon and turn it into an automatic weapon.
I can see no really good purpose for [bump stocks].
It’s the type of alteration to a gun that’s going to make it inaccurate for one thing because you have so much movement in the gun itself.
It’d be hard to justify I think in the eyes of true recreational and sporting shooters.
This creates the possibility of a weapon that feels almost like a fully automatic weapon.
But you don’t have the licensing cost, you don’t have the expense of buying a fully automatic weapon.
[Gun Shots]
We can’t live in fear. We just can’t.
Some people were saying that tonight, doing the solidarity concert, might be a little bit too soon.
Our attitude is this is what we do.
The country music community is… it is strong.
I was there, just like so many of you guys
and it’s so great to see so many of you guys that made it out.
And I’m so happy that we can just share this moment together,
but I want to play this song, I want to dedicate it to everybody.
[Music Playing]
I’m the CEO of a non-profit organization called the Trauma Intervention Program or TIPS of Southern Nevada.
We respond out to scenes of tragedy at the request of emergency responders and we provide emotional and practical support on those scenes.
When I’m on those scenes and those people are sometimes by them self and they don’t have
loved ones nearby those are the ones that I feel like really need us to be there.
The unique thing is that everyone is unique. Everyone has different needs.
A lot of it’s just being there for ‘em.
One of my officers was off-duty attending the concert and lost his life.
It hurts. It really does hurt.
Always and forever no matter what [CRYING] we are bonded as family.
There’s hundreds of unsung heroes helping one another you know.
Strangers just laying on each other trying to protect each other.
That’s what we’re all about.
I’ve just been hearing all these stories of heroism that occurred in the midst of this tragedy.
That’s the kind of people we have here in Las Vegas who are willing to reach out and help one another.
If it weren’t for all of the people, all of the community that came out to donate blood that Monday and Sunday right after the incident,
because of what they did they saved lives and they need to know that.
I thought that if I can bring Jack and he can help put a smile
on people’s face and warm their hearts, give them something positive in this really sad time.
Jack always has a smile on his face.
This area really did care. And we have each others backs
and our first responders have our backs.
Please stand up and look around and see the lives that your father and your husband have touched.
This is probably more than I ever expected and it’s really quite amazing.
You had one aggressor in the situation and from that thousands of people pouring out to support their community.
I thought that was really nice you know that there was more good in the world than there is bad.
And then here’s another misconception that people will say,
'how long does it take to get over it?'
This is something that people aren’t going to get over.
I think a lot of people are going to refer to life now as before and after.
People just learn how to live differently.
They’re not getting over anything.