Meet baby you saved in Sin City massacre Vegas hero and tot she shielded
Paddock killed 58 people and injured more than 400 in the October shooting at the Route 91 festival.
Xander was born the following month by C-section, a month early. Miriam and Sue Ann met at the Healing Garden in Las Vegas – created as a memorial to the victims – after Miriam traced Sue Ann through a website for survivors.
Recalling the attack, Miriam said: “At first it sounded like fireworks. When I realised I felt shock, seeing so many people on the ground unresponsive. But the biggest thing was trying to protect my baby.”
Mum-of-one Sue Ann explained: “I recognised the gunfire straight away.
“There were a bunch of kids around me so I pulled them down and helped some of them over a fence.
“Then I saw Miriam with Billie Jo and told them to get up and follow me. There were bullets flying everywhere, you could hear the ‘ting, ting, ting’ as they bounced off the equipment.
“We had to hit the floor three or four times until we got to a bit of open fence. Seeing Miriam again, I was so proud.”
Surf shop worker Miriam added: “I’m so grateful. That a stranger I’d never met in my life did that was amazing.”
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You could hear the ‘ting, ting’ as bullets bounced off equipment SUE ANN CORNWELL ON RESCUE UNDER GUNFIRE
Onlookers rescue an injured fan