
The cooperation of Las Vegas police was key, bringing footage like the race to hospitals with survivors and the moment when a tactical unit burst into the casino hotel room where the gunman had barricaded himself. The film takes you vividly inside the event with cellphone and police body-cam footage. “We all went back to our corners to suffer in silence,” she said. Many survivors, like herself, were unhappy with media coverage of the massacre, believing there was too much focus on the gunman and that it was forgotten too soon. She was encouraged to broaden her focus through her experience with fellow survivors and the involvement of director Jeff Zimbalist and veteran producers Susan Zirinsky and Terence Wrong. Hoff, already in the film business, thought that made an intriguing subject. Nine months later, an FBI agent was at Hoff’s door with her boots - part of a little-known unit that returns property left behind by people caught in these incidents. More than 850 people were hurt before the gunfire stopped. They alternated ducking to the ground for cover and running away, depending on when they could hear the gunshots.Īt one point, she kicked off her cowboy boots because it was too slippery to run in them, eventually escaping the killing field where 58 people died that night, and two more later of their injuries. She turned to look at her husband and saw someone just behind him struck in the face by a bullet. 1, 2017, four rows from the stage as Jason Aldean sang “Any Ol’ Barstool.” Hoff heard popping sounds that she and her husband, Shaun, first dismissed as fireworks - not the work of a gunman firing from a nearby hotel window. It seems like a strange sentiment given that Hoff was at the show on Oct. “I’ve never felt more useful or more like the universe put me exactly where I was supposed to be,” said Hoff, an executive producer of “11 Minutes.” More than three hours long, the four-part documentary debuts Tuesday on the Paramount+ streaming service. The resulting film, “11 Minutes,” is an inside account of the 2017 massacre at a country music festival in Las Vegas and, more importantly, about how it reverberated in the lives of those who were there. Subscribe to the CBS News YouTube channel: A pair of cowboy boots that Ashley Hoff never thought she would see again helped unlock a powerful story about the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. Launched in November 2014 as CBSN, the CBS News Streaming Network is available live in 91 countries and on 30 digital platforms and apps, as well as on and Paramount+. The CBS News Streaming Network is your destination for breaking news, live events and original reporting locally, nationally and around the globe.
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Storme Warren, a survivor of the massacre, joins CBS News to discuss his experience being interviewed for the documentary and how he's been affected by the tragedy.ĬBS News Streaming Network is the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service from CBS News and Stations, available free to everyone with access to the Internet. Roughly five years after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, "11 Minutes" is premiering exclusively on Paramount+, which is owned by CBS News' parent company.
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A new documentary series takes an in-depth look at one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S.
