(Contributed photo: Shelly Adams and Adam Blooi of Yarmouth moments before gunfire rang out at a concert they were attending in Las Vegas)
Lucky to be alive.
Some friends from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia were among the hundreds who witnessed the horror of the last night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.
At least 59 people are dead and over 500 were taken to hospital after shots were fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel during an open air country music festival taking place outside.
Shelly Adams, her boyfriend Adam Blooi along with Scott and Wendy Sollows and their son Jacob were sitting in the bleachers listening to the last performer, Jason Aldean.
Adams recounted the horror to Acadia News from Las Vegas.
“It sounded like fireworks. I thought, ‘ who would be putting on fireworks while there’s a concert?’ Then Adam said ‘Get down, Get down!’ The music stopped and there was gunfire, so we laid down on the bleachers for a while. The shots would stop for so long then they’d start again. Then we finally crawled under the bleachers as the shots were being fired. We stayed there a long time until a police officer who had been shot motioned for us to get out of there. we had gone to a local casino where they said it was safe. Then someone says ‘run, run, there’s a gunman” and we took off running. it was like a stampede. We hid in the bushes for quite a while with some ladies. Then we knew we had to move out of here, so then we went to hide with another group to try and get back, because we were separated from our friends. We started walking down the street. There were a lot of police, you could see medical equipment and bloody clothes. As we’re walking by this back street, there’s two bodies covered up. There’s blood everywhere.” None of them were hurt. They made it to the highway where they got a cab with two other people were working the venue.”
Adams says they are all still in shock, saying they all feel numb.
“It’s very eerie what has happened. Then we called home and I left a voicemail for my father. Like we said it could have been the last time we called home.”
She says they’re trying to get a flight back to Canada today.
