‘It’s Incomparable’: A Photographer on Covering the Las Vegas Mass Shooting

“Active shooter.” Chase Stevens, a photographer with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, had just walked through the door of his house when the call from the nighttime photo editor came in. Stevens had spent the night covering a hockey game at the T-Mobile Arena, about a mile away from where gunfire was reported. So he headed back to the Strip. The severity wasn’t yet clear. On the way, he read tweets that alluded to “how devastating it could be”: a little after 10 p.m., a shooter had apparently opened fire at a music festival. Come daybreak, at least 58 people would be dead and some 500 others injured. The latest mass shooting in America became its deadliest in history. Stevens, 26, parked his Toyota Camry and ran as close to scene as he could. It was a half hour after the first bullets were shot from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino onto a crowd enjoying the Route 91 Harvest music festival. Jason Aldean, the country crooner performing onstage when the gunfire began, had left. The throngs of concertgoers had fanned out into nearby buildings seeking shelter, toward first-responders in search of care or elsewhere in search of a moment to breathe. Chase Stevens—Las Vegas Review-Journal/APA wounded person is transported in a wheelbarrow after a mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1, 2017. At a huge medical tent nearby, Stevens tells TIME in a phone call, “there was a guy getting rolled in on a wheelbarr...
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