He immediately dropped to the ground, and huddled with those around him, waiting for the shooting to pass. How the attacks unfolded on Friday 13th November Guardian “I was still standing up and I could see the gunman and he looked right at me and he shot at me and he missed and he hit my console and buttons went flying everywhere,” London said. Fans started running towards his console and hiding behind it. It’s heartfelt,” London recalled.īut then he heard what he thought was firecrackers behind him. “The show went well, these kids were having a blast, they were having a great time, the smiles, the dancing, the singing along with each song. Shawn London, the band’s sound engineer, was in the back of the venue, off to the side, in front of the doors. A suicide bomber, McJunkins would later learn. “And then it would stop and there was a sense of relief and then it would start up again.”įinally, there was an explosion “that just shook the whole room and probably the whole building”. The water trickled down the stairs, which those trapped in the room worried would alert the gunman to their presence. The room was flooding, as a slow leak brought the water up to their ankles. One man applied pressure to a gunshot wound on a woman’s thigh, McJunkins recalled.

Many occupants were injured and bleeding.

A bottle of champagne, left in the room’s mini-fridge, was set to be used as the only weapon they had. He retreated to the room with a large group of people, who immediately started grabbing chairs to barricade the door. “I see the pops go off, the lights flashing, sort of dive over and then just have to make that decision of do I really want to run across the stage or do I want to go in this room and hope for the best,” he said. McJunkins knew there was no exit on his side of the stage, and attempted to tell others. But fans immediately pushed their way through a door onto the stage and headed for a room in the back. When the shooting started, he ducked behind the monitor desk and curtain. The band’s bassist, Matt McJunkins, did not leave the venue with the rest of the group.

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