Las Vegas Comments by Doctors

Kodiak Yazzie, 36, stated the track stopped quickly when the first shots began and the song even started up again earlier than the second round of pops sent the performers ducking for canopy and fleeing the level.

"It was the craziest stuff I've ever seen in my entire lifestyles," Yazzie stated. "You ought to listen that the noise changed into coming from west folks, from Mandalay Bay. You ought to see a flash-flash-flash-flash."

Chris Bethel, who become staying  flooring down from the thirty second ground, advised CBS News' John Blackstone "the walls and the windows have been vibrating. You may want to feel the compression, the sound."

"I haven't had any sleep. I near my eyes -- I relive the instant," Bethel said.

Thousands in the crowd fled, or tried to. Monique Dumas from British Columbia, Canada, said she was at the concert, six rows from the level when she concept she heard a bottle breaking, and then a burst of popping sounds that appeared like fireworks. She stated as she made her way out it was "organized chaos" as every body fled. "It took 4 to five minutes and all that point there has been gunfire."

"It's a devastating time," Sheriff Lombardo said.
Police shut down the generally busy Las Vegas Boulevard and authorities across the state and federal ranks converged onto the scene as dozens of ambulances ferried those struck by means of gunfire. Nearby Interstate 15 and flights at McCarran International Airport had been briefly closed. Hospital emergency rooms had been jammed with victims delivered through ambulance. Others loaded the wounded into their vehicles and drove them to hospitals.

Jose Baggett, 31, of Las Vegas, stated he and a chum have been in the foyer of the Luxor hotel-on line casino -- immediately north of the pageant -- whilst human beings commenced to run, nearly like in a stampede. He said human beings were crying and as he and his buddy started out on foot away minutes later, they encountered police checkpoints where officials have been sporting shotguns and attack rifles.

"There have been armored employees vehicles, SWAT cars, ambulances, and at least a 1/2-mile of police cars," Baggett said.