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One Year After The Las Vegas Shooting, 2 Survivors Remember

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Next week marks a grim anniversary for Las Vegas. The single deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. A man opened fire from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino into crowds at a country music festival on Oct. 1, 2017. He killed 58 people, injured hundreds more and left this city reeling. A year on the city is still healing. We spoke to two survivors. 'I hid under someone who was dead' NPR first spoke to Nick Campbell when he was 16, a high school student from a suburb of Las Vegas, just after the shooting. He was in a hospital bed, his right lung pierced by a bullet, his ribs broken. He'd been at the festival with his girlfriend. When the shots began he dove on top of her to protect her. He helped her climb over a fence, but he couldn't make that climb himself because of his wounds. He searched for a way to protect himself. "I hid under someone who was dead," he said at the time. "The shooter is not going to shoot where there's already someone dead." Almost a year later,

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