CHICAGO (AP) – The shooting rampage in Las Vegas has triggered grim memories for survivors of previous massacres.
There have been dozens of mass shootings since Adrian Littlefield was shot at the University of Texas some 50 years ago by a sniper perched high in a tower. Each time, he relives his own narrow escape from death.
Littlefield and other survivors of mass shootings like the one in Las Vegas say what got them through was leaning on family, friends and counselors.
FILE – In this Aug. 1, 1966 file photo, one of the victims of Charles Joseph Whitman, the sniper who gunned down victims from a perch in the University of Texas tower, is carried across the campus to a waiting ambulance in Austin. Survivors of mass shootings say what got them through was leaning on family, friends and counselors. (AP Photo/File)
Littlefield was among those injured in the 1966 clock tower shooting at the University of Texas.
He’s a 70-year-old preacher now.
In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 photo, Pulse shooting survivor Angel Colon, left, talks with friend Melissa Cruz during a vigil in Orlando, Fla., to show solidarity with the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Colon was shot six times during the June 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub, and says he is still dealing with post-traumatic stress. “Ambulances, police, even glass, as well, is a trigger. Little specific things, sometimes you forget about, and when you see it, you remember,” he said. The shooting killed 49 people and injured dozens of others. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
FILE – In this Sunday, April 25, 1999 file photo, shooting victim Austin Eubanks hugs his girlfriend during a community wide memorial service in Littleton, Colo., for the victims of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School the previous week. Recovery took a long dark turn for Austin Eubanks, just 17 when two classmates went on a rampage at Columbine High School. Eubanks was shot in his hand and knee and watched his best friend die, one of 15 killed in the 1999 attack in Colorado, including the shooters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
In this May 7, 2016 photo provided by It Takes Us, Ashley Cech, left, poses with her mother Yvonne Cech prior to the 2016 Brooklyn Bridge March for Gun Sense in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Ashley knew many of those killed in the Dec. 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and attended 13 funerals with her mother, who now works at a library in a nearby town. Counseling from a trauma specialist who came to Newtown helped her understand her own grief, Cech says. (Joe Quint/It Takes Us via AP)
In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 photo, Norman Casiano, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, writes a note on a banner during a vigil in Orlando, Fla., to show solidarity with the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Casiano was hiding in a bathroom stall with dozens of others when the Orlando gunman shot him twice through the stall door. He’s on disability and says he still has anxiety and post-traumatic stress. Las Vegas “was a big trigger. I still mustered up to come here, and to show the support we were shown last year,” Casiano said. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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