Las Vegas survivor reveals stranger carried her to safety

An 18-year-old woman who was shot during Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas has thanked a heroic stranger who carried her to safety. 

Addison Short was with her friend when Stephen Paddock began firing on the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival below his Mandalay Bay hotel room. 

She tried to escape but was hit in the leg and left unable to run. 

She hasn’t had a chance to thank the man, but said she ‘probably’ wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for his valiant actions

At this point Short told her friend to ‘get somewhere safe’ before hiding under a bar as blood poured out of her wound, CNN reported. 

She explained: ‘You kept hearing gunshots. They just weren’t stopping.’

But at this desperate moment, a man she’d never met before came over to help her. 

He tightened his belt around her leg, she said, in a bid to stop the bleeding. 

She then said to the man: ‘Please get me out of here.’

The heroic stranger responded by throwing the woman over his shoulder and carrying her safely to a taxi, which drove her to hospital.

She hasn’t had a chance to thank the man, but said she ‘probably’ wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for his valiant actions. 

Speaking from her bed at the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, she said of her gunshot wound: ‘It hurts so bad – the pain is just unbearable. 

‘But it could have been way worse.’ 

She added: ‘It was just the scariest experience of my life.’

Short, however, remains convinced it could have been far worse – particularly if her mother, a police office, had worked the festival as she often does.