A man caught up in the Las Vegas gunfire was desperately trying to decide if he should jump out of his wheelchair and take cover when a brave nurse came to his rescue.
Lorisa Loy, who works as an ICU nurse in Las Vegas, sprang into action when the gunman unleashed a barrage of bullets on the crowd of country music fans on Sunday night.
She was captured in a now-viral photo pushing George Cook in his wheelchair while they tried to flee the danger zone as hundreds of bullets darted past them.
Lorisa Loy was captured in a now-viral photo pushing George Cook in his wheelchair while they tried to flee the Las Vegas danger zone as hundreds of bullets darted past them
With injured people and debris covering the ground, Cook – who lives in San Francisco with his two children aged 11 and 13 – said he was struggling to work out how he could escape in his wheelchair.
‘Do I get on the ground? You know, jump out of my chair and get on the ground or stay in my chair? I chose to stay in the chair,’ he told CBS.
‘That’s when Lorisa came to me and said… ‘I’m gonna get you outta here’.
Loy, who was at the concert with her daughter Meghan, suffered a severely sprained ankle as thousands tried to escape the horror.
Despite the pain, she saw her daughter trying to push Cook’s wheelchair and decided to take over so Meghan could run.
Cook – who lives in San Francisco with his two children aged 11 and 13 – said he was struggling to work out how he could escape the terror in his wheelchair
Loy, who was at the concert with her daughter Meghan (above at the festival), suffered a severely sprained ankle as thousands tried to escape the horror
Once Loy got Cook to safety, the nurse set about making tourniquets with t-shirts and performing CPR on the injured
‘There’s no way he could maneuver himself through this. There was rubbish everywhere. You know, beer cans and trash, all sort of stuff was on the ground but we were able to push through that,’ Loy said.
Once she got Cook to safety, the nurse set about making tourniquets with t-shirts and performing CPR on the injured.
Despite her brave efforts, Loy refuses to acknowledge herself as a hero.
Cook, however, thinks otherwise.
‘I’m a single dad with two kids at home so it was real important that I’m alive. Maybe that’s why this happened. Maybe that’s why this person was sent to save me, to be there for the kids,’ he said.
Despite her brave efforts in helping Cook (right with his children), Loy refuses to acknowledge herself as a hero