At least two people were killed and multiple others were injured in a shooting near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Sunday, police said.
Transcript for The moment gunfire broke out at Las Vegas concert
We’ve been saying there’s been a mass shooting in Las Vegas the route 91 country music fassel unfolded around 1130 Las Vegas time last night. At least one shooter right now that shooter police report has been down that is the gunfire that was the scene of Iraq I didn’t want. Country music festival. Just for several minutes the concert where. On several seconds clear that gunfire sound like wolf right now we. Two are dead point six injured according to local hospitals eluding police briefing right now. You do that only within that god on the scene. Las Vegas that it appears the gunman now is down according to him but this is such a terrifying. Situation. But. At 70. Right foot hotel. He hasn’t seen this video of this. That’s right George that’s unique in here that’s automatic gunfire that is descending you don’t often hear. It gives you the indication that. This person was firing blindly into the crowd knowing he opened fire on automatic and that means they’re not really taking proper age but people were so densely packed we hear your anywhere from. Ten to 20000. In that crowd that you don’t need campaign ended the hearing from eyewitness is one of them like frogs sitting right next week. Covered in July to help his friend he was shot three times. Reported mold. Times like these rounds off assault rifle rounds fired right into the crowd had nowhere to run that was so densely packed everybody trying to get. Steve wood Jason LT was playing. And they tried to scatter before trampling each other trampling. Wounded and right there are also stories of the great heroics people taking to the wounded right in that’s about the big cold. They kill box George trying to stanch the wounds literally. Plugging the wounds with their fingers right in the chest to stop the bleeding and incredibly chaotic scene but also those trim Medicare tremendous erodes. And the problem is it was so densely packed there were so many people that. I first medics and first responders couldn’t get in there to help sell. People had to load the wounded out carry them over fences to try to get them out of that kills elm. This this man Mike drug tried to carries. His friend under. Over a fence and it under the stage they tend to do and there were military personnel possibly law enforcement on the scene as well. We’re helping render first aid that man survived but they managed to get. Injured person into a truck that was the only way to evacuate a pickup truck there was another man shot in the chest there. And he died in this man microns arms just seconds later on in incredibly harrowing scene for the thousands here. And all around the strip people can’t get back in the strip be seated coming out. But it can’t come mainly because it is still on lockdown these iconic hotels George jumped. New York,New York luck sir Mandalay. Excalibur they’re all right now on lockdown they’re being evacuated people are being taken out. Just as a precaution right now authorities believe that there was a single shooter. He’s apparently been neutralized he or she has been a neutralized but not before firing off multiple clips on automatic. First responders saying that there are at least 26 wounded twelve of them in critical condition. And two fatalities so far but that is obviously. Likely to rise with those twelve people in critical condition hopefully. They can be stabilized George but right now. All the focus here by law enforcement is on securing the scene and on starting the initial phases of the investigation into that and body ATF the FBI multiple agencies are on the scene trying to help out.
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