It's been nearly a decade since one of the most horrifying moments in country music history.
On Oct. 1, 2017, Jason Aldean was performing his song "When She Says Baby" at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas when gunman Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on the crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, killing 60 people and injuring over 800 more, according to People.
No clear motive was found for the shooting, per the BBC, and Paddock — who had no criminal record — was found dead an hour later in his hotel room, where police discovered over 20 guns.
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While Aldean and his crew were not harmed in the incident, the singer opened up about the difficult aftermath last year during an appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast.
“It was a festival like we've done a million times,” Aldean said. “It was just obviously something that we weren't prepared for.”
“We finally got out of there the next afternoon, home and you're just glad to be home, show up, my mom's crying,” Aldean continued. “You know, my oldest daughter was in school, freaking out, thinking that somebody was trying to shoot us, so all the details were still kind of coming out.”
It was when Aldean got back home that the reality of what had occurred truly hit him.
"All of a sudden at home, we had something else to focus on versus watching that on the news every day," he recalled. "For me, you know, I kind of had a breakdown in my house one day. It was after my son was born and just all that heaviness of everything, just getting laid on you."
"I ended up having a moment at my house where I broke down thinking about all the people that I could have lost, all the people that we did lose as far as fans, but my inner circle of people and my wife was there eight months pregnant with my son and all these things," Aldean explained.
"It's easier to talk about now. At the time it wasn't because you're still trying to comprehend what had just happened," the star added. "You know, my bass player, my best friend for the last 25 years, his bass had a bullet lodged in it that he was wearing when we were on stage. For our little family, our little crew, we got so lucky, not one injury to any of our guys. And you're happy about that, but then you're like, feel guilty to be happy about there's like this guilt-ridden thing.”
To this day, the tragedy remains the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history.
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