This is the brave female cab driver who risked her life to pick up blood-soaked festival goers fleeing a barrage of bullets during the Las Vegas massacre.
Corianne Langdon, 58, a cabdriver in Sin City for the past six years, was approaching the Mandalay Bay Hotel on Sunday evening when she got the report from dispatch of ‘multiple shots fired’.
Recording on her cellphone, Langdon captured the sound of repeated bursts of automatic gunfire as Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on a crowd of thousands at the 91 Route Harvest Festival from his Mandalay Hotel room, killing 58.
But the video also recorded the eerie sense of calm outside the hotel as people were slow to realize what was happening, even as gunfire rang out overhead.
This is the brave female cab driver, Corinne Langdon (left and right) who risked her life to pick up blood soaked festival goers fleeing a barrage of bullets during the Las Vegas massacre
Langdon, 58, a cabdriver in Sin City for the past six years, was driving on Sunday when Paddock, 64, opened fire on a crowd of thousands at the 91 Route Harvest Festival from his Mandalay Hotel room, killing 58
‘You guys, there’s shots fired!’ Langdon yelled out her taxi window at pedestrians near the hotel before speeding off down Las Vegas Boulevard where she got her first glimpse of the hundreds of people fleeing the festival.
She stopped to pick up couple, one of whom had a broken leg, who were escaping the massacre, before another couple of hysterical festival goers clambered inside the car amid scenes of sheer panic and chaos.
‘Get the f**k out of Vegas, just go, go, go!’ one of the terrified passengers screamed as Langdon tried to avoid the dead, injured and those still trying the flee gunfire out on the street.
‘Where do you wanna go,’ asked the cab driver, sounding shaken.
‘Anywhere, anywhere!’ one of her hysterical passengers screamed in response. ‘Just drive. Drive as fast as you can. Please just go.’
‘Please get us very, very far away from this,’ another yelled, as everyone in the back shouted over each other in fear and panic.
This is dramatic moment a brave female cab driver picked up blood soaked festival goers fleeing a barrage of bullets during the Las Vegas massacre
She stopped to pick up couple, one of whom had a broken leg, who were escaping the massacre, before another couple of hysterical festival goers clambered inside the car amid scenes of sheer panic and chaos
‘Get the f**k out of Vegas, just go, go, go!’ one of the terrified passengers screamed as Langdon tried to avoid the dead, injured and those still trying the flee gunfire out on the street
Langdon said she had no idea how bad the situation was until she picked up the passengers, who were covered in blood.
‘There’s gonna be hundreds and hundreds of people dead,’ one passenger told her.
‘Are you kidding me?’ Langdon had asked, as her passengers assured her it was ‘really bad.’
‘There was blood everywhere.’
The festival goers are also heard calling their parents, in tears, to let them know they were still alive after the shooting.
‘Hey mom, there was a mass shooting at this event we were at but we’re OK. I’m in a taxi, I’m covered in blood,’ one woman said.
‘There were dead bodies everywhere,’ she added, crying. ‘There ware so many people who got killed, like hundreds. They told us just to run, so we just ran as fast as we can.’
Langdon was driving down Las Vegas Boulevard where she got her first glimpse of the hundreds of people fleeing the festival
Langdon said she had no idea how bad the situation was until she picked up the passengers who were covered in blood
Langdon dropped the group at a shopping center far away from the strip and the location of the shooter, but said the danger she put herself in was only really sinking in now.
‘It was just surreal,’ she told CNN after the harrowing ride. ‘I wasn’t really scared then but I’m definitely scared now and I feel really bad for everybody and all the families.
‘When I started going across and there’s people in front of my cab and people laying on the ground being treated to, triage and everything, and even in the cab started screaming saying there was blood all over them.
‘There’s hundreds of people dead inside. Of course, these people were freaked out and that’s when I started to realize, “Oh my God, something is wrong.”
‘So, I got out of there as soon as possible. They kept saying take us to the strip.’
Langdon was approaching the Mandalay Bay Hotel on Sunday evening when she got the report from dispatch of ‘multiple shots fired’
Langdon said she’d taken as ‘many as I could’ and even had people ‘hanging out of my windows.’
‘They were screaming, they were so upset, and it just wasn’t getting to me yet the severity of what was going on,’ she said.
‘I just feel so horrible for everybody. Now I’m finding out more people are dead.’
Concertgoers were enjoying the Route 91 country music festival when Paddock, 64, open fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay resort hotel.
Paddock fired from an automatic rifle indiscriminately killing dozens and injuring hundreds more.
The gunman committed suicide in the hotel room before police could arrest him.