Country star Jason Aldin had just started to sing about how some days are tough

when the audience heard a strange noise. It wasn't a boom boom boom more like

that's in Jelecasotto her friends call her Helle. She was at the annual route

91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas with her best friend Carmen Elegría on

October 1 2017 when they heard that weird sound. At first they thought it was

fireworks to mark the end of the weekend long festival. Helle said so everybody

kind of looked up and was waiting to see you know the sparkles and there

wasn't any and so we were like hmm okay interesting maybe it was just somebody

driving by I don't know we can't figure out what it was. Then they heard the

sound again and Helle felt her left arm start to burn. She called out to

Carmen who saw blood gushing from her friend's shoulder ripped off her t-shirt and

held it tight against the wound. People around them started to run so Carmen

threw herself on top of her friend to protect her from trampling feet. Then she

felt a bullet hit her leg. I knew I couldn't move her and I knew I wasn't gonna

leave her. The bullet just didn't stop coming and so I remember thinking oh my

god this is how we go. I've told people I was praying so loud like I didn't

care who heard as long as God heard because it was just so like terrifying I

don't even know how to put in towards like the the tear that we felt like it

and it wouldn't stop like I kept telling I was like why why won't this stop like

why isn't it stopping. It didn't stop for ten full minutes when it was over

58 people were dead. Carmen and Helle were two of the more than 400 people who

survived gunshot wounds. The Vegas shooting marked the deadliest mass shooting in

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