Hero gig-goer refused to leave Las Vegas massacre site until he’d tracked down a woman he’d meet for the first time only minutes before
A MAN who survived the horrific gun massacre spent the night searching for a woman he had just met at the doomed concert.
Kody Robertson could only watch as his new friend, Michelle Vo, was hit by one of the hundreds of bullets that hailed down on the Route 91 festival crowds - just yards from him.
"She was literally right beside me, maybe two feet away."
The auto parts salesman said he threw his body on top of his new friend, desperately trying to shield her from more bullets.
When the indiscriminate firing seemed to come to a stop, he and another man carried the 32-year-old woman out - stopping only to take cover when the gunfire resumed.
Eventually, Kody managed to get Michelle to a pickup truck that was taking people to hospital, going back to the scene to pull others to safety as gunman Stephen Paddock fired multiple rounds from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort.
Finding Michelle's bag, Kody eventually tracked down her phone that had been picked up by other panicked concert goers - managing to get onto the woman's family.
The husband of Michelle's oldest sister, Jeremiah Hawkins, begged on the phone: "Please tell me that she's OK."
Kody promised he would find Michelle - walking from hospital to hospital to find the woman with a floral tattoo he had just met.
After hours of checking, constantly giving updates to Michelle's family, he was given the worst news - that she was one of the at least 59 people killed in the attack.
At Sunrise Hospital, still wearing his bloody jeans and shirt from the concert, he was told by doctors: "Michelle didn’t make it.
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