Year: 2017

iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) -- A 29-year-old woman at the country music concert in Las Vegas where a shooter opened fire from above fled the scene and then returned to get her truck and help victims.Lindsay Padgett said she initially thought the popping sounds were pyrotechnics during Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival."We just heard popping sounds and saw sparks going off of the stage, so at first […]

Mindy Small/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) --  Country music star Jake Owen said watching the deadly Las Vegas shooting unfold while he was on the stage of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas was like seeing "a bad movie.""Standing there, you could hear the bullets starting to hit the roof of the stage and people started fleeing everywhere. You could hear people screaming," Owen told ABC News. "It sounded […]

iStock/Thinkstock(LAS VEGAS) --  After gunfire broke out late Sunday night during the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, concertgoer Adam Payne carried his wounded friend to safety.Payne said he and his girlfriend were able to flee unharmed after a gunman opened fire from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing at least 50 people. Payne's friend, who was shot in the stomach, is now in stable condition after […]

ABC News.(LAS VEGAS) -- Retired teacher and avid hunter Mike Cronk knew instantly the staccato sounds coming from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino last night were the real thing."I heard some of the bullets hit the fence, and it's aluminum," Cronk, 48, told ABC News' Matt Gutman. "That's how we knew these weren't firecrackers."Thousands of country music aficionados who were enjoying Jason Aldean's set at the Route 91 Harvest […]

Ethan Miller/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS) -- Concertgoer Brian Claypool feared for his life Sunday when a gunman opened fire during the final night of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas, saying he “didn’t want to die.” Country music artist Jason Aldean was performing when the gunfire erupted, Claypool said, causing everyone to panic. “It was pretty eerie because Jason [Aldean] kind of hesitated in his song and I’m […]