2024-04-10
18 分钟Las Vegas Just after 10pm on Sunday, October 1, 2017, more than 20,000 people were enjoying a music festival on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Country singer Jason Aldean was on stage when suddenly his performance was interrupted.
There was like four random shots that come out which I had mistaken for fireworks and evidently there was no fireworks around which was then sort of followed up with 11 minutes of bullets, automatic gunfire constantly.
Now I have never been in a situation with gunfire and we just sort of Ran.
Stuart McCormack was at the festival with his wife when 64 year old Stephen Paddock holed himself up in a hotel room overlooking the event and started firing indiscriminately at the people attending.
It was a case of just trying to run back to your safe place, which you didn't really know where that was.
Thankfully we never were in the bits where we seen people getting harmed, but we got away early enough.
Tragically, a lot of other people didn't.
60 people died.
At least 413 were wounded, another 400 injured in the panic that followed.
Stephen Paddock was found dead an hour later with a self inflicted gunshot wound.
He'd committed the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S.
history.
There was a lot of anger, a lot of grief.
Although you didn't know anybody who passed away personally, you think to yourself, did I rub shoulders with somebody who's not gone home?
Me and my wife's hardest part was that was our honeymoon.
So always attributed to being married would be.
This happened two days later and we thought we could never separate those memories.
But thankfully at this point we can.
Stewart first got in touch with me last October, six years after that fateful day in Las Vegas.