A Contra Costa County man caught in the chaos of Sunday night's shooting attack on a country music festival in Las Vegas said the scene was terrifying, bloody -- and surreal.
Brett Eastwood of Discovery Bay said early Monday that he and two friends were watching Jason Aldean perform at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, 30 or 40 feet from the stage, when he started hearing popping.
"The first thought I had was, 'It's fireworks,' " Eastwood said. "I go to events all the time and you hear people do stupid stuff. I 100 percent did not think it was gunshots."
But soon he saw Aldean and his crew scramble to leave the stage, and the popping sound returned. This time, Eastwood saw people near him falling to the ground as if they had been shot -- so he and two friends ran under a nearby set of bleachers.