shots were coming from that upper level across to the country music concert. we have a gentleman here. what is your name, and where were you when all of this started happening at any time? i m will ramos. i was in the mdle of the concert venue. reporter: and all of a sudden you heard and is a what? like a firecracker shot. and after a minute like a second later we heard like a couple rounds like you know, like everybody starting running. like a stampede i start freaking out start running from the outside and got in my car. and we all got to the helicopter airport and then they moves to the airport. reporter: did you drop down or start running? when i saw people start running i start to run to because i want to save my life because i got two kids at home. reporter: this had to be
100-plus injured and 20-plus dead. i don t want to give you an accurate number because i do not have it at this point. i still want them to shelter in place. they will be contacted by first responders and they will advise them when they re free to go. it s better to shelter in place than to be unaware. we believe there are a couple off-duty officers that were attending the concert that may have died. we don t have them identified yet. all i know at this point, they are roommates. i can t give you that now. yes. we believe so.
more than 400 injured or transported to the hospital at this shooting at a country music concert in las vegas overnight. let s go straight to stephanie elam she joins us outside the university medical center in las vegas where many, many of these injured and those that were murdered were taken because of the trauma center there. exactly, poppy. you re talking about this hospital here which is the only level one trauma center in the state of nevada. from what we understand 104 patients were at mitted here, of that number, 30 patients were treated in the trauma center, eight were taken to the operating room and 12 remain in critical condition. we also know another hospital in the area saint rose dominican dignity health they have three campuses and across all three they received 55 patients. some of the patients have been discharged but they re saying there are four that remin in critical condition with gunshot
dave what they said sounded like fireworks first and then the rapid of the gun fire. one wonders if what they thought were fireworks was the glass. for those of you you haven t been there. you cannot open any windows, you d have to shoot them out. that s probably what these witnesses described hearing. again, this was clearly automatic gun fire from an elevated position during the jason aldean concert. this is a packed concert. needless to say the entertainer of the year. here is a statement from that performer. saying tonight has been beyond horrific. i still don t know what toe say but wanted to let every know me and my crew are safe. my thoughts and prayers out to everyone involved. it hurts my heart to know this happened to anyone who came to what should have been a fun
making it shake their gun laws i mean i just i don t know how many more of these tragedies have to happen for people to realize that we need to change the laws. tonight las vegas is a city and morning after what is being called the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history scores are dead hundreds injured and investigators are now busy trying to figure out why the suspect did it what we do know is that he was a sixty four year old white man from nevada who apparently turned an outdoor country music concert into a killing field shooting round after round from his hotel room above it was a festive a vent that quickly turned into a scene of horror. this was the