Once she found his account, she began messaging his friends from her own account, telling them that she was with their friend, and that he had been shot.
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She said the concert venue was not unlike a warzone once the gunfire started, with people using ladders and other objects as makeshift stretchers to evacuate the wounded. “He would give you the shirt off his back”, she said. “But then all of a sudden there were people running through the bar and we couldn’t understand why”. “It was like what you see in the movies”, she remembers. Another group carried someone on a barricade gate as a stretcher.
Manley spent hours huddling with others in the kitchen area of a hotel conference centre until police told them it was safe to come out. She helped them move the man to the sidewalk. She stayed with him.
Mrs Parks didn’t survive while her husband is in surgery after the bullet injured his arm and finger.
Then she met Jordan, the man on the ladder. “I was just thinking about my kids and my family and I was just so scared”. She wanted to reply, but the phone was locked. I answered the call.
Meanwhile, people returning to Calgary from Las Vegas described a night of panic and horror following the shooting. “I can never express how much you meant to me”, she said on Facebook.
Bereza said her boyfriend showed her what unconditional love is. “I know you will always be looking down and watching over her to protect her just the same as you did when you (were) by her side”, Cole wrote on Facebook.
She said a team of investigators were at the crash site west of Campbell River on Monday and the wreckage has been moved to a hangar in Richmond for more investigation.
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said in a tweet on Monday that Albertans’ “hearts go out to the loved ones of the Albertan who was killed in the Las Vegas attack”. “And I said ‘I didn’t want to be the one to tell you this, but he didn’t make it'”. Would they contact my family?
Jordan McIldoon, 23, of Maple Ridge, B.C., Jessica Klymchuk, 34, of Valleyview, Alta. and Calla Medig, 28, of Edmonton have also been confirmed to have been killed in the shooting. Gooze spoke to her by phone.
Jordan’s mom called again and they talked through tears. “I couldn’t go”, she said. Talk to him.’ I said, ‘I’ve been with him for over an hour. I was holding his hand. From finding him perched on the roof of the barn at age two or having him leap into the deep end of the lake before he could swim, he was always on the go.
Mr. McIldoon’s mother and father, Angela and Alan, said in a statement that their son was a “fearless” man who “lived a life full of adventures”. She learned about the tattoos, what a nice a boy he was, what an awesome girlfriend he had. He would have celebrated his 24th birthday later this week.
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With tears rolling down her face, Gooze told CNN she didn’t feel like she had done enough.
