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What began as a weekend trip to Las Vegas to take in a country music festival turned into a harrowing experience for Jon Hoese.
Hoese, who played fullback for the Gophers from 2007 to ’10, attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival with friends on Sunday night and was at the Jason Aldean concert near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino when the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history broke out.
At least 58 people were killed and 515 injured when Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nev., began firing an automatic weapon from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, across South Las Vegas Blvd. from the concert site.
“Honestly, it doesn’t even feel real yet,’’ said Hoese, who grew up on a farm near Glencoe but lives in Golden Valley. “It’s kind of really setting in how extreme this was.’’
Hoese said a man 10 to 15 feet in front of him was shot and a woman 10 to 15 feet behind him was struck in the arm. He was told the woman was taken to a hospital and was fine, but he didn’t have an update on the man.
“At first, we kind of heard this noise, and we assumed because it was toward the end of [Aldean’s concert] that it was fireworks or something like that,’’ said Hoese, who was toward the left side of the stage. “Then people were saying it was a shooter.’’
http://www.startribune.com/former-g...as-concert-where-massacre-happened/449095743/
Go Gophers!!
What began as a weekend trip to Las Vegas to take in a country music festival turned into a harrowing experience for Jon Hoese.
Hoese, who played fullback for the Gophers from 2007 to ’10, attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival with friends on Sunday night and was at the Jason Aldean concert near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino when the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history broke out.
At least 58 people were killed and 515 injured when Stephen Craig Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nev., began firing an automatic weapon from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, across South Las Vegas Blvd. from the concert site.
“Honestly, it doesn’t even feel real yet,’’ said Hoese, who grew up on a farm near Glencoe but lives in Golden Valley. “It’s kind of really setting in how extreme this was.’’
Hoese said a man 10 to 15 feet in front of him was shot and a woman 10 to 15 feet behind him was struck in the arm. He was told the woman was taken to a hospital and was fine, but he didn’t have an update on the man.
“At first, we kind of heard this noise, and we assumed because it was toward the end of [Aldean’s concert] that it was fireworks or something like that,’’ said Hoese, who was toward the left side of the stage. “Then people were saying it was a shooter.’’
http://www.startribune.com/former-g...as-concert-where-massacre-happened/449095743/
Go Gophers!!
