Many country stars, from the festival and elsewhere, sent out messages of love on social media. history, with President Trump deeming the incident as an “act of pure evil.” The attack was classified as the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. Updates continue to come in, including news that the confirmed suspect was a 64-year-old man named Stephen Paddock and is dead. 58 people were killed, with a reported 515 others injured from the attack. Gunfire began during Jason Aldean’s headlining set to close out the Route 91 Harvest Festival held annually in Las Vegas. It’s too real,” Warren hoped, optimistically. We’ve been watching the news trying to keep up on it, but we have to keep the sound down because we can’t hear the sounds anymore. The news keeps playing the sound of those gunshots. It’s going to take a few days to decompress. It’s a horrible, horrible reality, this new reality we’re living in. It’s not going to stop you from doing anything. It’s not going to stop you from entertaining. It’s not going to stop you from performing. “We’ve had those talks with Chris and Tyler. Like many seeing the events play out on the news, Warren evaluated the future of music festivals and safety at concert venues worldwide after the shooting took place on what outlets are calling a ‘soft target.’ We didn’t know if the shots were going to continue again,” the SiriusXM host said. In that adrenaline rush, everyone wanted to help and be safe at the same time. You had to move onto people who were still okay, or just injuries that you could help. Also, the breadth of the devastation came true as you’re walking around. Who needs help?’ Everybody was really chipping in. Everybody was trying to help one another to get out, to be safe. I want to say something fantastic about the humanity at this festival. “Everybody who had medical experience was chipping in. Warren then went on to detail the spontaneous medical help given out by those in attendance, as well as the brave first responders who came on the scene despite being in the middle of what seemed like a warzone. We had panicked relatives and girlfriends and boyfriends saying ‘I need a medic over here!’ It’s tough to imagine that could happen minutes before such a festive event,” he recounted for the news program. We all chipped in and everybody’s racing around. It was a lot of people that we witnessed. There were people hurt, and bloody, injured people. As soon as the gunfire had ceased for awhile, at least what we thought was going to be awhile, I wanted to go up and try to go out into the grass of the arena and see what was going on. When we all realized, Jason’s crew very professionally rushed Jason and his band off the stage and got them safe. I was standing onstage when this first started to happen. You could actually hear the shells hitting the stage deck. 1) tragic events, SiriusXM’s Storme Warren recounted exactly what he saw occur at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.Ĭalling in to HLN to talk about the incident with host Robin Meade, Warren remembered not much of what he saw but rather the bone-chilling sounds of the gunfire coming thousands of feet away from a Mandalay Bay Hotel room window. Out of the thousands of witnesses to Sunday night’s (Oct.
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