Helping them would've meant that we got shot, too.' People were trying to save their friends. People were getting shot one foot away from us. She added: 'People kept dropping and dropping. 'When we started running out, there were probably a couple hundred on the ground.' People started screaming that they were hit,' witness Meghan Kearney told MSNBC. Then all of a sudden we heard what sounded like a machine gun.
'We heard what sounded like firecrackers going off. Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, fired shot after shot from his room at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino down on the crowd of about 22,000, sending terrified concertgoers running for their lives.
It was the worst mass shooting in modern American history, and Stephen Craig Paddock was 'solely responsible for this heinous act,' Assistant Clark County Sheriff Todd Fasulo told reporters Monday night. A lone gunman unleashed a rapid-fire barrage of bullets from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel late Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500 others attending a country music festival below, officials said.
