One of the 59 confirmed deaths from Sunday night’s mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert was 23-year-old Jordan McIldoon. His final minutes were spent in the arms of a total stranger who never left his side, reports CBS News‘ Adriana Diaz.
“It’s what you see on TV and it’s never going to be you. It’s never going to happen to you. And it was happening,” said Heather Gooze. She was working as a bartender at the concert and escaped the gunfire.
But McIldoon who, according to his Facebook page, lived in Canada and worked in construction, did not. He was among the seriously wounded Gooze held.
“His fingers were kind of wrapped on my hand. His hand kind of squeezed a little bit, and then just, like, went loose,” Gooze said. – READ MORE
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