when settling on the route 91 harvest festival. he requested a suite at the end of the hallway. and then meticulously set up his sniper s nest. all without raising red flags. he s in a large hotel, people are dragging suitcases in and out on a regular basis. maid service never came to that room, he had the do not disturb sign on the day for the whole three or four days he was there. so he had three or four days to move equipment in and out of there. reporter: all of it ready for when the headlining act, jason aldean took the stage. the moment the crowd would have been the biggest and he could do the most damage. when the first rounds went off we had a lot of injuries not only from the bullets and ricochets but injuries from the
head. it looked like a war zone. a lot of blood. and a lot of parents. a lot of kids falling over each other going up fences. as you re looking at the stage, we ended up on the left side, and they were just trying to climb up those fences and it looked like they were getting picked off by bullets or ricochets. we were trying to tell them to stay down, stay sheltered, don t move with the crowd. dean, can you tell me about the teenage girl you met between bursts of gunfire? so when i went to the ems tent, grabbed some gloves, came back out, me and another off duty firefighter went to bodies and we had brought two one of them didn t make it.
cover and i wanted to get at an angel because i knew the sound of the shots was coming from mandalay bay. i wanted to get down for cover to where she was behind me and we laid down and as i was laying there, i moved forward so she would be more her head would be behind me. just as i moved forward, that s when i took the round into the shoulder. i had two other grazings that i think were ricochets that hit this shoulder, this shoulder and across my neck and i didn t even feel those. my wife, i said i m hit, when i said that, she looked up at me and she saw more fire coming off the astroturf that was next to us. so, that s when she said we have to go now. she saved your life. that s what she said.
ricochets. we were trying to tell them to stay down, stay sheltered, don t move with the crowd. dean, can you tell me about the teenage girl you met between bursts of gunfire? so when i went to the ems tent, grabbed some gloves, came back out, me and another off duty firefighter went to bodies and we had brought two one of them didn t make it. i was at the ems tent, about to go back out i went over and grabbed a tourniquet. we started a line in the other arm. then there was a 15-year-old
and i heard the some shots go off and i look at him and i thought said to him i think that was a gun. he said no i think it s probably fireworks. everybody thought that. it was so loud. and people were shoulder to shoulder. we were pkd in there. and then we heard more. and then i saw jason aldean run off the stage. and everybody just started running. and there was just a barrage of shots fired and rounds and rounds. it seemed like eternity. did you know what it was. we knew but you couldn t tell where it was coming from, somebody from the crowd or if it was happening on the street, not even where we were. right. and then i started feeling the ricochets of the bullets on the ground. you felt that. yes. and i i said to sonny let s get down and he said no we can t get down we ll get trampled.