West Virginia woman thankful to be alive after attending Vegas concert

CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) — A woman from West Virginia was among the crowd in Vegas but thankfully was not hurt.

Courtney Robey is from Shinnston, West Virginia and was in Vegas for work. Her parents, also from Shinnston, were with her on the trip. They were staying on the 60th floor of Mandalay Bay.

Robey went to the concert with a coworker and snapped a picture around 10:01 p.m. Seven minutes later, she would find herself in the middle of gunfire.

"We just looked around and the first place we found to go was under the bleachers were the seats were for the VIP section. There was some netting around the bottom, so we just lifted it up and dove underneath to get away from the gunfire," she said. "I have three kids. I have a 9-year-old son, a 4-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son and I can't wait to get home to them but I don't know how I can ever tell them what happened. It was the most terrifying thing that I've ever been through."

She remembers hiding under the bleachers for about 20 minutes, gathered with strangers praying they would survive.

"We just got really lucky that we had those bleachers to kind of dive under and we prayed and I think that's why we're here," she said.

Robey said a man in the group she was with at the concert was shot and is currently in critical condition.