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Photographer David Becker while covering the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas captures the terror of the deadliest mass shooting to date
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/10/02/i-realized-people-were-dying-photographer-david-becker-tells-what-he-witnessed-at-the-las-vegas-mass-shooting/
“After capturing photographs of the final act of the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, I headed back to the media tent to start filing my photographs. After about 5 to 10 minutes I heard very loud popping sounds and I went outside to see what was happening and a security guy said it was just firecrackers, so I went back to work. The second time I heard the popping sounds, somebody said to me, “It was just speakers or sound equipment,” and again, I went back into the media tent. Then the noises went again, and that was when the crowd started to flee.