Las Vegas Shooting
Vegas hero survived mass shooting but died of suicide; parents now looking for those he saved
Although Scotty Pettersen couldn't bring himself to search for the people he helped for fear they didn't survive, his parents are desperate to find "a bright spot."
Amanda Lee MyersUSA TODAY
When a country music concert turned into a killing field in Las Vegas, Scotty Pettersen of Seattle helped so many gunshot victims, he lost count.
As the bullets hit hundreds of people, the 27-year-old Pettersen ran his girlfriend and a nearby family to the safety of an ambulance.
The paramedics were out helping others but inside the ambulance were four gunshot victims. Pettersen’s EMT and firefighter training kicked in.
“I grabbed gauze, grabbed bandages and started wrapping a guy up, and another guy came up who was shot in the back, and I started wrapping him,” Pettersen told KIRO-TV in Seattle just a few days after the massacre that killed 58 people on Oct. 1, 2017. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.