An out-of-town wife and 3-year-old daughter forced Adam Steck to cancel plans to attend the Route 91 Harvest music festival October 1 with his cousin. No big deal, thought the veteran Las Vegas show producer, until his phone lit up just after 10pm. “I got a text from my company manager at Thunder From Down Under, and I called my cousin as he was walking in,” recalls Steck. “I could actually hear bullets rattling off through his phone, people running down the street. It was just absolute mayhem.”
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