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Its relaxation central, theres this kind of legacy of las vegas as being a place where something secret happens, maybe you go on your own but las vegas is also the place where you where people go in groups to have a wonderful time, and they dance and maybe they gamble and hear music. The route 91 Harvest Festival had been a success for a number of years its 20,000 people, a three day concert. You had a great Cross Sections of americans who all wanted to come to that festival and it drew all kinds of people. My name is heather melton. And i live in big sandy, tennessee. Sonny says that when he first saw me that i stole his heart. We kind of like to do some travelling and this year, our thing has been going to concerts. And we were very excited to come to the route 91 festival. My name is dean mcauley. Im a professional firefighter up here in washington state. We go to this event every year route 91 harvest fest in las vegas. Its what we do. My name is Jonathan Smith and i am a copy repair technician based out of orange california. I recently just got into Country Music i know people are like why is there a black guy at a Country Music festival, but ive always listened to country. I can listen to any country song and itll just take me away. My name gianna baca and i am a cheer leader. My sister natalia baca, shes sassy like me. The best thing about being a twin is that were always together and were never alone so you always have a best friend with you. My names lisa fine. And i have two children, and im a professional organizer and personal trainer, nutritionist. And i live in roseville, california. My name is michael greenfield. Im a musician, stage technician, i do a lot of different shows out here. Anywhere from Corporate Events to full on stage concerts. Im nick miller. Im a guitarist. I play for singer, adam craig. This was the first time that i had been to this particular festival so i was pretty excited to get to vegas and really experience it. Im breanna skagen. Im russell bleck. We got engaged on september 10th in new york. We were sailing and he popped the question. We were celebrating the engagement and w t eefr he stiv. E thursday september 28th was actually my boyfriends birthday we went over to the top golf hit some golf balls. I spent my day at National Personal Training institute, at school. On thursday i was doing a lot of laundry. We actually went to work that day and we flew out here to las vegas. On thursday, Stephen Paddock drove away from his home in a gated Retirement Community in mesquite, nevada. What we know about Stephen Paddock is that he is a 64yearold compulsive gambler who worked as an accountant, before that he was an irs agent, he even worked as a postal carrier. He seemed like a very ordinary person who didnt mix well with others, very few people knew much about him. I thought this guy is so into himself and ive never met an individual like that ever, where you couldnt create some emotion one way or the other. Paddocks girlfriend was marilou danley. He met her at a casino in reno, nevada, the atlantis. She worked there as whats called, a casino hostess, for high end players in the video poker area. Toolgt they traveled around the wo comped with all kinds of ameties. On september 15th mary lilou day boarded the flight to the philippines. After she arrived federal agents discovered he had been wiring tens of thousands of dollars to someone in the fiphilippines. She said she had no idea anything was amiss. Its thursday, september 28th, and paddock pulls into the mandalay bay, leaves the car with the valets and walks into the hotel. One of the things everyone sees is a sign that says no weapons permitted. He gets a room called the mandalay bay suite. This is room 32135. And this is one of the nicest suites in the entire hotel. Its 1700 square feet. Right on the corner of the hotel, with a perfect view to that concert venue down below. At about 11 50 in the morning, we had just landed in vegas. For three days, i was, you know, just ready to get on my country outfit and have fun. We got to the venue the first day, there were so many bands we were excited about seeing. Number one, especially for sonny, was to see eric church. And the thing about these country concerts is its all a tailgate, its all a party. And you walk in. And im lookin at my phone for my list of all the tshirts and stuff that people want back home. I bought a cowboy hat, got a bling belt buckle, and just really was excited that i was gonna have this really fancy cowgirl outfit to wear, and dance around, and have the time of my life. I decided to wear a black hills matter shirt. Its actually the mountains in south dakota so i wore it just for laughs and giggles. I was actually here in las vegas covering oj simpson. Simpson said he wants to move to florida to be near his children. My sister and i were really excited. We were like this is our first concert outside with a lot of people so were like oh my gosh and we were just so pumped for it. Saturday was a seminormal day. I decided to go in a full ensemble ended up dancing with a few women my favorite musical moment was when sam hunt was getting up on that stage and gonna sing all the songs i absolutely love. Those thousands of concertgoers are down below, what they dont know is theres another spectator. Hes on the 32nd story of that building looking down on them and hes planning something beyond sinister. When you have a cold. Stuff happens. And hes planning something shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. Only have a sore throat . Get longlasting relief for up to 6 hours with new alka seltzer plus sore throat relief. 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He was there until 7 30, at least, in the morning of the day of the shooting playing that video poker. If gambling is one of his demon he wanted to get one more fix, and maybe also it pumped up his anger and rage. We just got up and had breakfast, and wanted to watch some football. And then just kinda hung out until we decided to go over to the venue. We just were hanging out at the house and, just putting on outfits and stuff and just so excited for the festival. We flew into vegas, went straight to the festival. Checked in. We started walking into the festival and i took a quick snapchat and the caption read wonder what kind of trouble can i get into tonight. My parents didnt really like us going places without them, and they were like oh, your seniors and youre almost 18 so they were just like, well just let you guys go without us this time. We stay at the luxor every year. Rfrsitom t aheig venue. Its right next to the mandalay bay. Sunday, id gotten the call hey, do you want to work tonight . Yeah, sure, ill be there. On sunday there was app whole series of entertainment options. David copperfield, a show called Michael Jacksons one playing at the manned day bay in addition to the route 19 Harvest Festival. Las vegas was alive and jumping as it is every night. We went on stage and there were a lot of people at the festival. It takes about 15 minutes. Went to the venue and i got dropped off right out front. Just the excitement and energy were off the charts and everybody is in there, you know, amazing, cowboy gear and looking so cute. Well see what you got las vegas. Over the weekend as down below people are drinking beer and reveling in this route 91 Harvest Festival, paddock sent up the command center and he is slowly stockpiling this massive arsenal in his room. Hes got 10 cases, there are 24 guns, and included among them are at least a dozen ar rifles, those are long guns. One thing we have never seen in the history of lone shooters is the elaborate system he has enveloped himself in inside the room. Hes got a baby monitor set up. Cameras, one hidden under a plate. He had installed the camera right in the peep hole of his door. The purpose is that he would be able to monitor from inside the room if Law Enforcement approaches. Hes ordering room service and those trays are coming in but notably he didnt want House Keeping in there messing with his stuff. He had that do not disstate your name sign out on the door. That day was amazing and a lot of people and different bands playing. Cmon whoa so, i want to say i got there close to 9 30, was when my shift was about to start, when the talent leaves the stage, we get up there. And we start tearin it all out. The venue was set up incredible. You just felt like you were safe, because we went through metal detecters. They looked in our purses. I think, with the training and the background that i have, im always lookin for exits, no matter what. I do remember looking at those fences and lookin, like, how do we get out, if something goes wrong . There were so many people like, everyone was really nice to each other, even random people, they would come up and dance with you. It was really fun. Were all excited, happy, and the music is incredible. Music always touches our hearts and lives. Us girls we like those cowboys that sing the cowboy songs that bring about love and fun and happiness. Make this place shake tonight. I just remember, it was just such a great vibe at that point. So i got friends all of a sudden journey came on. And you hear this entire crowd just start singing. We were dancing to as much as you could, shoulder to shoulder. It was it kinda was, like a throwback to the 60s of, you know, peace, love and happiness. Every year we go we stand in the same place next to the vip booth and this particular day we went to the other side. The other side of the stage. And ah, that was a game changer for us. One of the most moving parts of the whole three days was they sang god bless america. The whole crowd was singing at the top of their lungs and had their phones lit up. Reporter as the music is playing theres a different sound happening on the 30th floor. Hes using a hammer to smash through at least two win ghoes the suite to gain a Vantage Point down below. I was looking forward to jason aldean. Jason aldean is huge. The whole vibe of the show is upbeat and fun and loud. Jason aldean started. I was so excited to see him. You have the sickening feeling that none of these people down below had any idea of the carnage that was just about to befall them. We had the vip wrist bands for the neon tent. We took a photo, her and i took a photo. After that photo, the contrast was so dramatic. 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Stephen paddock has his weapons lined up ready to go. We were in the front row enjoying jason aldean and in the video we are so happy. Everybody is thrilled and ten minutes later all hell broke loose. [ gunshots ] the shots fired. It felt like fireworks honestly. Thats just a fire cracker. Why would they do that . I turned to sonny and said was that a gun and he said i dont think so because the music was very loud. I heard a crackle sound. And it was so odd. Ive been around firearms my whole life and i didnt think it was a weapon at all. I thought it was just some feedback, maybe from the amplifiers or something. So i continued to shoot. And then i hear somebody was like, was that a gun . And i was like, you know what, on Second Thought that sounded like an ar15 from far away. That was an ar. It sounded like somethin out of you you hear in the news with afghanistan or iraq or you know, any of the movies we see now. Just the click, click, click, click, click, click, click. That doesnt sound like a real gun. It is a real gun. [ bleep ] thats me screaming that it is a real gun. Within seconds you could tell, no, that is not fireworks. That is that is Somebody Just spraying bullets down on people, innocent people. I said, i think thats guns. And thats when jason aldean ran off the stage. And people started running. I had a little little mini flashlight, so i start waving it to evebody. Rybody off the stage. Everybody off the stage. I see the road crew and a bunch of people running off the stage, takin jason aldean with him. Runnin as fast as they could down the stairs. And my first instinct was to get the flashlight on the stairs so that they can at least see where theyre goin. They werent stopping. The shots were not stopping. They just kept going and going. And i mean, the only thing that we could think of was just to run. Just to run. Keep going please my boyfriend threw me to the floor like trying to protect me and it felt like a metal medicine ball, like a hundred pound medicine ball landed on me. So it was like i got hit or i got shot. I said to sonny, we just need to get down. And he said, no, we cant get down, cause well get trampled. And thats when he just wrapped his arms around me from behind, and we started running. And thats when i felt him get shot in the back. And we fell to the ground. I felt the impact of the bullet in his body, cause he was holding me. And i think he could hear me at first. But i i couldnt tell where hed been shot from. I just saw a lot of blood. And i couldnt tell, i couldnt tell. And he couldnt talk to me. And i couldnt feel a pulse. So i started doing cpr. And there was still bullets flying all around us. I was pinned down i couldnt get out of there. You can hear the sounds. It sounded like the shots just raining through the tent flaps. And you had no idea where the gunman was, where the shots were being fired from. Get out of here, there gun shots coming from over there. Go that way. Uniformed Police Officers at the venue, they get pinned down, because theyre right there with the crowd. Had their body cams on and you could see them, sort of the fear in like the unknown of where is this coming from . Theyre shooting right at us, guys. Where is it at . Coming out of a window. And i decided that i wanted to record every single thing that was happening, i just thought, if im gonna die, i want my kids and my f