Vegas shooting witnesses describe police heroism

LAS VEGAS (AP) – Police and witnesses in newly released documents described acts of heroism by Las Vegas officers responding to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history or those at the concert on their own time.

Authorities set up makeshift triage areas, where one officer “tried to keep the victims focused on staying alive” while figuring out some kind of evacuation plan.

Another officer told a group of between 100 and 150 bystanders to take off any belts and T-shirts that could be used as tourniquets.

The account came in more than 2,000 pages of redacted documents released by police Wednesday.

An off-duty officer attending the country music festival also said he tried to get his fiancee and a friend to safety, lying over them multiple times as panicked people rushed to escape.

The officer, identified only as M. Amburgey, wrote that “as I was lying on top of them, people were trampling over top of us trying to escape the area.”