time i got to the door and outside. we heard ricochetting and went back inside. we didn t want toget hurt. it was very close and very loud. at first we thought maybe somebody was target shooting. but this was semi-automatic fire. this was rapid fire. at what point we start seeing first responders coming in and there was the fire department and mobile command station and things of that nature. this is a very small town. a everybody knows everybody. it is devastating. so once you saw law enforcement that s when you realized all that gun fire was coming from that first baptist church just across the street from your store? we were flabbergasted. there is no reason for something
for families to wait for answers and wait for news of their loved ones. i imagine you have been on the other side having to deliver this kind of horrible information to people, family members. help us understand what these families might be going through right now. we refer to this in federal government from the fbi s perspective as victim assistance. and i tell you i worked cases where there were mass casualties. i worked cases where there were just horrific circumstances and death and destruction. i cannot begin to tell you how difficult it has to be when you are on the front line dealing with a family that first and foremost doesn t have an answer and then secondly if the answer is tragically they lost somebody in the carnage, that is a very difficult, difficult thing for folks to do. the people that do that are as brave as anybody that runs into a fire or anybody that runs to the sound of the guns. dealing with family members at
two days or so that it was the bump stock in las vegas. whether or not this was just a lot of rounds which people on scene could have confused for automatic weapon fire or simply somebody with a semi-automatic rifle. we don t know if there was more than one weapon. we don t. what makes this so tragic is the fact that inside a church people, similar to what happened in vegas where people were watching the country concert or something here where you have four walls and somebody armed with weaponry that they are able to take lots of lives in short order and people can t get out and get away from the fire quickly enough. we know the attacker apparently did leave the church because there was some kind of a chase. hoping to learn more details about the that chase. what do you make of the fact the suspect took off?
needless to say, a sellout. it was outdoor, and the reports are the one suspect that was killed by las vegas police, on the 32nd floor of the mandalay bay hoe tothotel. automatic gun fire from an elevated position. opened up about 10:30. there was about 45 seconds that went by, silence, panicked concert goers, and then the shooting began once again. we are awaiting a press briefing from the police in las vegas. they had a very brief maybe an hour ago, very brief on-camera interview where they told reporters gathered there they confirmed two dead. they think there is one shooter. we know from witnesses trying to get home from dinner trying to get back into the hotel they are locked out. you can see the las vegas strip
different places in the stadium, and then it seemed like automatic gunfire. we heard bam bam bam bam, so we got down and took cover and tried to get out. richard, you were across the street. where did the shots appear to be coming from? you couldn t tell. they sounded like fireworks at furst, but when you looked up i think they were coming from the top of the mandalay bay. reporter: how could you tell? there was an alarm going off in like a busted out window. that s the only thing we thought. that was the direction. reporter: what was the reaction to people? did they start screaming? was there silence. stunned. i m like move, get down, get down and start moving because then we once the band started getting off the stage, we knew shots were coming in. so we started moving then. reporter: i was asked how did jason aldean know to get off the stage? no. the.