When Bullets Rained Down in Las Vegas, One Man ’s Hotel Room Became a Sanctuary for Strangers

Sunday was just not Aaron Banner-Goodspeed’s day. The TSA confiscated his shaving cream; he thought he might be able to sneak it through airport security, but he got busted. So when the 43-year old data analyst for a Boston hospital landed in Las Vegas after a five-hour flight, he had to schlep out to buy more. Then he ate some dinner and went back to his room and tried to find an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm on TV. But the Tropicana hotel had no HBO. Just his luck. He was hanging out in his underwear, flipping through basic cable channels, when he heard a commotion outside his room on the first floor. “I thought ‘oh it’s Vegas on a Sunday night, it’s a little louder than I remember,'” Banner-Goodspeed said. He thought there was a party, or maybe a fight. Then he heard a knock on the door. He put on a pair of jeans. He went to the door and opened it. A guy in his 20s said “there’s a shooter,” then ran down the orange-carpeted hallway. “Then a crowd of people came in running, and I was behind the door,” he recalled. “The next thing I knew there were 18 people in my room.” Matt Stuart—Magnum for TIMEAaron Banner-Goodspeed, Las Vegas, Oct. 4, 2017. They were all concert-goers who had fled the Route 91 Harvest Festival when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire from the nearby Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing at least 58 people and wounding more than 500 others before taking his own life,...
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