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The Murder Diaries

INTERVIEW: Amber Smith (Route 91 Survivor)

The Murder Diaries

Cloud10

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6755 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by Amber Smith, a mom, wife, and survivor of the Route 91 Harvest music festival mass shooting. The gunman at Mandalay Bay unleashed bullets for 11 minutes into the festival. It became one of the most deadly mass shootings in the US. Amber of course is so much more than just a survivor, and we are here to talk to her about her experience surviving Route 91 and PTSD. Amber's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrs.smith.0921 Our Links: Website: https://themurderdiariespodcast.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themurderdiariespod Buy Us a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mdiariespod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themurderdiariespod/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdgBwpV1/ Edited by: https://www.landispodcastediting.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1

Today we are joined by Amber Smith. Many of you remember the Route 91 festival mass shooting.

0:36.4

The gunmen at Mandalay Bay unleashed bullets for 11 minutes into the festival.

0:42.4

It became one of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S.

0:45.7

with 604 victims and 58 fatalities.

0:51.2

Amber, of course, is so much more than a survivor,

0:54.0

and we are here to talk to her about her

0:56.4

experience surviving Route 91 as well as PTSD. Now, let's get into the interview. Thank you so much

1:03.5

for joining us today, Amber. Would you please introduce yourself to our listeners?

1:08.1

My name is Amber Smith, and I am a mom of two beautiful little girls and a wife to my

1:14.3

amazing husband, Chris, we've been married almost 11 years.

1:18.1

And I wouldn't say business owner, but I work in IVF and fertility.

1:24.4

I've been doing that for about 14 years.

1:30.0

And I think that's it. That's me.

1:38.1

Well, we're glad to have you here today. And one part of your story, not the whole part, but one of them is the fact that you attended the Route 91 Harvest Festival, which was an open-air country music

1:46.6

festival that they have pretty frequently, but the year you attended happened to be 2017.

1:53.4

Yes, that was correct.

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