fire. we now know that that gunman was firing for nine to 11 minutes. i was talking with a friend of mine who happened to be at that country music festival. i asked her beforehand how long do you think this lasted? it s hard to gauge when you re in one of these moments but she thought it was five to ten minutes, so that was a pretty accurate estimate. that body camera footage shows in the early moments, police are telling people to get down. other people were saying, no, it s just fireworks, it s just fireworks. it s something we heard a lot of people say initially, they thought it was part of the show as the country music concert was going on. police continue in that body camera footage continue people to get down. they were helping to clear people and get them to safer ground. there s another point where you can hear an officer say it sounds like it s coming from mandalay bay. that was part of the problem, it s hard to tell where the gunfire was coming from. there were ricochets of b
i started feeling the ricochets of the bullets on the ground. you actually fed that? yes. i said to sonny let s get down. he said no we can t get down we ll get tramped. and he grabbed me from behind and we started running in a duck position. he was run holding you running from behind. yeah. and i felt him get shot in the back. we feel to the ground, and i just remember seeing people all around me on the ground. and i was trying to talk to him and he wasn t responding, and i started doing cpr on him. and people were yelling at me to get down, and i kept feeling the shots all around me. and i was just screaming for somebody to help me. and then finally the shots
messed up, and then the sound stage just completely went silent. someone eais like, he s got a g. like a heavy machine gun. this was like heavy military weapons that were going off. ricochets, bouncing everywhere. it was just complete chaos. one of the security guards was like, exit back out here, exit back out here. so my buddy dan and i run down the stairs. we run along the side of the stage. and i look and there s just a sea of people just like climbing the fences, barricades falling, people laid out, like, it was so intense. and when we came to this entrance to go out, i could hear
firing, because there was a good he kept firing. like, 20 rounds. then when he stopped, we ran over to the concessions area and headed underneath the bar and kept putting our head down. i just so many emotions were going through my mind, i heard people screaming, and i could feel the ricochets around me, and the sand coming up, and it was just it was just a nightmare. trace: at the retelling of that brings back these horrifying images, even to those that weren t there. russell, i wonder if you look at this and you think, man, i could have made a wrong turn. a lot of people i talked to were saying, we didn t know where to go. we heard the gunshots, we didn t know if it was to get us to some other area and there was going to be explosions, we did not know where to go. did you feel like that? 100%.
firing, because there was a good he kept firing. like, 20 rounds. then when he stopped, we ran over to the concessions area and headed underneath the bar and kept putting our head down. i just so many emotions were going through my mind, i heard people screaming, and i could feel the ricochets around me, and the sand coming up, and it was just it was just a nightmare. trace: at the retelling of that brings back these horrifying images, even to those that weren t there. russell, i wonder if you look at this and you think, man, i could have made a wrong turn. a lot of people i talked to were saying, we didn t know where to go. we heard the gunshots, we didn t know if it was to get us to some other area and there was going to be explosions, we did not know where to go. did you feel like that? 100%.