LES VEGAS — Students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and member communities describe their terror and shock Wednesday after person opened fire on campus and rattled the city, which is already home to deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Jose Lopez, 18-year-old freshman, said he was watching YouTube videos on the 4th floor of the UNLV business school building when he heard shots ring out. I heard a loud boom, then another.
«I was scared and my legs started shaking,» Lopez said. I briefly “froze like a statue” before bolting away.
I worked on the 3rd floor and there is an academic advisory office, where I barricaded myself with other people. He all waited there until the police came, pried open the doors with crowbar and escorted the group to safety.
Connor Friedman, 20, a junior studying finance, recalled hearing what he believed to be construction noise. But then, after a few minutes, I realized somebody was firing a gun nearby.
«That’s when I started running,» Friedman said. «It didn’t even feel real at first. It felt like they were lying about the shooting.”
I have come out of the reality that you have regretted just to see without: «People died at my school, in my building, and what is just a few minutes ago.»
In the interview for the TV news, the morning of the surprising students the daughter is «hysterical», when he has been silent with the news of the photograph.
«She heard the gunshots, she heard the screaming,» the mother said.
For reading three people were loading into the photograph, agreeing to the task of strengthening the family source for research. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the number of victims could change and extent of injuries were unknown. McMahill added there is no more threat to the community and that the suspect is dead.
The attack comes six years after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history took place in Las Vegas, during the music festival in October 2017. Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds more were wounded.
Relatives and friends of UNLV students lined up across the street from the campus as they waited for word about their loved ones.
Jayden Rol, 26, said his sister Nicole was safe and put in a closet somewhere on campus, waiting for police to arrive.
«I hear about shootings all the time,» he said, «and none of it makes sense.»
Jesus Medina, 28, said his wife, Stephanie, 26, who works in an administrative role in the English Department, is going to activate the shooter alert and flee down inside her building. I have been anxious to make it evacuated and describe panicked thoughts that raced through his head as he sped to campus to pick her up.
«Lord, please don’t let anything happen to my wife,» I said.
Deon J. Hampton reports from Las Vegas, Sarah Guevara from Washington and Daniel Arkin from New York. This story first appeared on NBCNews.com.
