Bay Area Witness to Las Vegas Carnage: ‘Was This My Last 5 Seconds?’

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Channel: KQED News · 2017 · News & Politics

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A Contra Costa County man caught in the chaos of Sunday night’s shooting attack on a country music festival in Las Vegas says the scene was terrifying, bloody — and surreal.

Brett Eastwood of Discovery Bay said early Monday that he and two friends were watching Jason Aldean perform at the Route 91 Harvest festival, 30 or 40 feet from the stage, when he started hearing popping.

“The first thought I had was, ‘It’s fireworks,'” Eastwood said. “I go to events all the time and you hear people do stupid stuff. I 100 percent did not think it was gunshots.”

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