‘The Worst Feeling in the World.’ A Mother’s Terror During the Las Vegas Shooting

Doris Huser’s memory of the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas is a sickening blur, punctuated by perfect, still images: snapshots she will remember for the rest of her life. There is the image of the woman, her eyes vacant, lying on her back on the pavement in front of Huser: “I’ve been shot,” Huser recalled her saying. There is the woman whose wheel chair had tipped over in the panic after what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history began. Her body had spilled onto the ground and people were leaping over her, terrified, scrambling for the only exit. There is the image of Huser’s eight-year-old daughter Cordelia, vomiting uncontrollably into a cowboy hat, a reaction to the trauma, her aquamarine jeans stained black from the asphalt. But most of all, there is the memory — the mind-bending, stomach-wrenching terror — of losing track of her five-year-son, Aden, and her 25-year-old sister in the chaos that was unleashed when gunman Stephen Paddock killed at least 59 people and injured hundreds more. “It was the worst feeling in the world,” Huser told TIME. For hours, she couldn’t find them. She couldn’t reach them. She didn’t know if they were alive or dead. And before all that, before the horror, there was joy. Read more: These Are the Victims of the Las Vegas Shooting Huser, 29, who works as a model, loves country music. She had gone to three of the last four Route 91 Harvest F...
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