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'It's By The Grace Of God That I Got Out Alive': Survivor Reflects On Las Vegas Massacre

NPR
Published October 4, 2017 at 9:06 AM PDT

Las Vegas massacre survivor David Holley, a 26-year-old mechanic from Victorville, California, was attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival with his girlfriend when the shooting happened.

Holley was shot in the elbow and his girlfriend was grazed on the top of the head. He tells Here & Now‘s Robin Young about how he’s holding up now that he’s back home.

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Remains of the garage door sit in the driveway in front of the house in the Sun City Mesquite community where suspected Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock lived, Oct. 2, 2017, in Mesquite, Nev. (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
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Remains of the garage door sit in the driveway in front of the house in the Sun City Mesquite community where suspected Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock lived, Oct. 2, 2017, in Mesquite, Nev. (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)