Las Vegas Shooting: St. Charles Man Shot While Celebrating 50th Birthday

ST. CHARLES, IL – A St. Charles man who was in Las Vegas celebrating his 50th birthday was among more than 500 people injured when a shooter opened fire on a concert Sunday, WGN TV reports. Scott Lee, his wife and another couple attended all three nights of the Route 91 Harvest Festival, including Sunday night when the tragic shooting took place. When shots were fired into a crowd of more than 22,000, the group took off running.

Lee told WGN News they were in a mezzanine area, which they later learned was directly in "the line of site of the shooter." The windows at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, where Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nev., stationed himself in a room on the 32nd floor, were blasted out. Paddock had been staying at the luxury hotel since Thursday, CNN reported. He killed himself in his hotel room before police SWAT teams could break down his door.

Lee was about a block from the concert venue when he felt his leg begin to give out and looked down to see blood, according to WGN. Some Good Samaritans helped him into the back of a pick-up truck, along with a young woman who had been shot in the chest, and took them to a hospital.

The Victims Of The Las Vegas Shooting

Lee is now recovering in St. Charles.

The latest reports say 59 people were killed in the mass shooting, the deadliest in U.S. history.

More via WGN News

AP Photo by: GOTPAP/STAR MAX/IPx: Atmosphere in the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip (Las Vegas Boulevard) in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, October 1st, 2017.

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