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And bullets were hitting the dirt so you could feel -- >> you're feeling the concussion of the bullets. >> it's hitting your face, the dirt is gloo ban yard believing their only home to get out to run across the stage that jason aldean had just fled. >> so i grabbed my son by the hand. is the years old but he was my little boy there again. and we sprinted across the stage. by the time we mernld with the crowd that was here, so then it just -- it came chaos. >> a bit of a stampede. >> it was exactly a stampede. and what do you do? i mean, there was really nowhere to hide. >> meanwhile, mike chr...

Honestly don't believe made it. nobody cared what you looked like last night. nobody did. they wanted to save your life. >> mike chronic also at the concert. told lester holt his friend was shot. described the young man that they were carrying to safety dying in his arms. >> we actually loaded four wounded people up in the back of a pickup truck and tried to get to the hospital. and i'm not sure which road we were on. might have been on this one and they stopped us because there was still a live shooter. we ran around. finally ran into an ambulance. they started triaging and we got my buddy in...

Panic on the ground. here is lester holt. >> reporter: the images are hard to shake. a night out turning into a nightmare. split second decisions. do you run or do you take cover? mike was ten feet from the stage when the shots began. >> i knew they came from the hotel and i'm like we're screaming at people to get down on the ground so you're not a target. >> his friend had been shot. >> your instinct was get down not run. >> my budy was hit. i'm not leaving him. >> where did he get hit. >> in the chest. >> leave your finger in. we got shirts off and compressed it. >> at that moment backstage ...