the american admitted he was doing that to a reporter, bragging about it, yeah, i did this thing. the other really strange thing about the story, which was down in the ninth paragraph of the story, a shock when you got there, the detail that the american who admitted to all of that was no longer alive. peter smith died ten days after recounting his story to the wall street journal. hometown paper reports that the 81-year-old killed himself in a minnesota hotel room. found with a bag over his head with a source of helium attached in a suicide note recovered at the scene, smith wrote, quote, all caps, no foul play whatsoever, all self-inflicted, no party had knowledge before the fact, all caps. a worker at the hotel said he noticed smith pacing in the lobby area the morning that he died, quote, seemed like he had a lot on his mind.
he was outside of the mandalay bay in lobby area and saw the gunfire break out. you say you saw windows shattering. per i was sitting in lobby area in salk and one to have-sidewalk and a few random gunshots and another window busted out and rapid gunfire gunshots that went on for two minutes. what were people doing, what was the reaction of the crowd? you could hear screaming from over concert area and the muis stopped, and people were trying to figure out what was going on and not a lot of reaction at mandalay bay was the shooting was going on elsewhere.
listen to some of the many witnesses for what was a busy area for when the shots were first fired. we heard pop pop pop, bullets came through the windows of the building that we were in, some man was running down the stairs and yelled there is an active shooter in the parking lot, get down, get to safety, so we funneled into the locker room. we were in there trying to be safe. and then cement went out to see what was going on, and it was unbelievable. i saw a helicopter coming through, and you could see the holes spread out through the windows p once we heard the situation was caulk and secure, we saw glass all over the lobby
area, and we walked into the facility, and two bullet holes, one stuck in between two panels, between the glass panels and one that went through both panels and through the lobby area and into the pool area and punctured those areas, too, so it went through the actual facility. two young people remember that part of the complex there was the ymca in the fields. we should update you on steve scalise, a new oleanian. a married father of two, number three ranking official on the republican side. he was hit, a single round to
congregate day and night, at lunchtime, in the evening. of course, it was saturday night. eyewitnesses have spoken about these people going at least to two or three of these establishments with the knives and indiscriminately slashing. we ve heard about eyewitnesses who report trying to fend these attackers off. one said if he had tripped while he was trying to struggle to break away from one of these killers, he would have been killed for sure, telling a different network that. now, what is really very poignant and obviously of great concern for security is that this attack comes two weeks to the day since the manchester attack. that was very different. that was a suicide bombing attack inside an establishment, in the lobby area of the manchester arena during an ariana grande concert on the 22nd of may, on monday night. ariana grande has come back and is doing a benefit concert for victims of that attack, along with coldplay and other bands in