Las Vegas shooting survivors Lisa and Abby Ochoa, a mother and daughter from Santa Clarita, are sharing the events that took place on Oct. 1 from their perspective, what they did once they realized what was happening, and how they managed to escape.

The mother and daughter were at the Route 91 Harvest Festival to celebrate Abby’s 15th birthday.

During the first two days of the music festival, they were towards the back of the crowd, but it being the last day, they decided to get as close to the stage as possible.

“We were 15 feet, I would say, from the front-right of the stage and maybe six feet from the barricade where the catwalk was, and all of a sudden we’re hearing something, we’re trying to figure out what it is,” Lisa explained. “Is it fireworks, it is gunfire, is it the speaker making a funky noise? And Jason (Aldean) runs off the stage and all of a sudden everyone just hunkers down.”

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Lisa’s first priority as a mother was to make sure her daughter was protected and immediately used herself as a human shield and hovered over her daughter while texting her husband.

She then heard people yelling that their loved ones had been shot, and asked those around her to help in her attempts to shield her daughter.  

“I start yelling out, ‘Bury her, bury her,’ and this kid who is 21 years old lays on top of my daughter and she’s in the fetal position on the ground,” Lisa said. “We’re so close together, we can’t run and so my only thought was to bury her — she’s 15.”

Knowing her daughter was being shielded from gunfire, Lisa’s instincts as a nurse kicked in and she began helping those around her, going as far as carrying a man who had been shot in the chest over the barricades and starting chest compressions.

While Lisa was helping the wounded man, Abby and Jake, the young man laying on top of her, were coming up with a plan to escape.

“Jake was on top of me and I started hitting his shoulder like, ‘Get off me.’ And he was like, ‘It’s okay, you’re safe. I’m going to protect you,’” Abby explained. “He said, … ‘There is going to be a break, he’s going to reload and we are going to run.’ I was like, ‘Where?’, and he said, ‘I don’t care. I’m going to lift you up and you are just going to run.”

As Abby and Jake were formulating this plan, Lisa was coming to the realization that the only person she could help in the situation was her daughter, and that she needed to get back to her.

“So here I am starting compressions and thinking, ‘Oh my God, I need to not be here. I need to get back to my daughter.’ And someone else comes over ready and takes over compressions,” Lisa explained. “Luckily I made it back within seconds of them actually running so I was able to go with them.”

As they were running toward safety, Jake stayed by their side, continuing to protect Abby through more rounds of gunfire and helping her to climb over barricades.

“We ran to the barricades and I was shaking, and Jake, without even hesitating, just lifted me over, and right on the other side there was a woman who had been shot in the shoulder,” Abby said. “At that moment there was really no way that it could be happening, it looked like a movie.”

In the midst of all this, Lisa’s husband received his wife’s text messages and left their hotel in search of them. At this point, they turned into a group of four and were picked up and driven back to their room by Lisa’s husband.

“We kept both of the guys with us most of the night,” said Lisa. “One all night long and the other guy was picked up by family and friends. Luckily we found out that everyone, all of (the people we) came with were safe.”

Both Lisa and Abby are now struggling with the fact that they encountered so many people in need of help on their way and couldn’t stop. However, Lisa can find some solace knowing that the man she started helping right after the shooting began is alive.

“I did find out six days later that the gentleman I was doing compressions on is alive,” said Lisa. “He is in rehab. He has a long recovery, but he is alive.”

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