A Lake Country man who was grazed by a bullet during Sunday night's shooting in Las Vegas says strangers saved him.
Braden Matejka was at the Route 91 music festival with his girlfriend and two other friends when they heard what they thought were fire crackers going off.
"I said don’t worry babe no ones shooting at us," Matejka writes in a Facebook post "As the gunman ran out of shells in his first round he started to open up again. As I seen someone in front of me get shot trough the chest, I grabbed Amanda and said get the f*** down now."
Matejka says he and his girlfriend ran to a nearby tent.
"As the gunman started peppering the tent we grabbed tables and flipped them over. When the bullets didn’t stop coming down on us and hitting the tabeles it was time to make a run for it."
While they were running, Matejka says he was hit, pushing him to the ground full sprint on his face.
"It felt as if someone hit me with a sledge hammer in the back of the head."
He got back up and told his girfriend he got shot.
"She looks and the whole back of my shirt was covered in blood. Blood spurting from the hole in which I had been shot. We started running holding my head, dizzy and rattled I wasn’t sure where to go. We got to cover again and went under the back side of the covers."
When they took cover again, a nearby man ripped his shirt off and tied it around Matejka's skull. Another man waved down a car, and a woman drove Matejka and his girlfriend to the hospital.
"They are keeping me till tomorrow or the next day to make sure that my brain has stopped bleeding. To say the least this was the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced. My deepest condolences to the many people that didn’t make it. Seeing so many people getting brought to the hospital, passing away beside me. Watching people being hunted down like cats. It sickens me."
Matejka ends his post thanking friends and family who have shown love and compassion.