'And Then, The Screaming Started': Scenes From A Nightmare In Las Vegas
By the time it was done, Sunday night's attack had become the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history. But when it began, all concertgoers knew was something felt very, very wrong.
At first, it just sounded like fireworks.
The Sunday headliner, Jason Aldean, had taken the stage not 30 minutes before, and it seemed natural that on the final night of Las Vegas' three-day Route 91 Harvest music festival there would be some pyrotechnics. Even Aldean stayed on stage as the first loud bursts rang out above the crowd of some 22,000 people.
But after "quite a while,", she and those around her understood something was wrong. It "was weird because we didn't see anything in the sky," she said.
