They first met in a Las Vegas bar. And then the shooting began ...
'10.10.2017'
Source: The Washington Post
Country music was already playing from the stage when Cody Robertson, a parts retailer from Columbus, sat behind a bar near Michelle Vaugh, an insurance agent from Los Angeles. As you already guessed, the meeting happened in Las Vegas, during the same concert where 58 people were killed and another half thousand injured.
Both were on 32 year, writes The Washington Post, they instantly hit it off, joked about their shared love of golf, he advised her new beers, and she showed him a big tattoo on his back. It turned out that both Cody and Michelle were staying at the Luxor Hotel. While new acquaintances were chatting, shooting began.
It turned out they were shooting out of a hotel. Mandalay Bay. The bullet hit Michelle in the chest. “I turned around and saw her fall to the ground,” Cody recalls. The man rushed to help and covered Michelle with his body. When the shooting stopped, Robertson carried one of the random volunteers into the car and returned to help the wounded.
Cody found Michelle's purse. He promised himself that he would find the woman and return her things. Robertson asked everyone about Michelle, describing her height, hair color and tattoo, called every hospital he could, but did not know about Waugh anywhere. All this time the man blamed himself for her injury and said: "It should have been me, it would be better if it was me."
Michelle was found among the unidentified wounded in the city's trauma surgery. When Cody arrived at the hospital, he was invited into a small office. “Michelle didn't do it,” one of the doctors said. “The injuries were too bad.” The man was so amazed that he could not answer.
Robertson is still in Las Vegas, although he should have flown a few days ago. His boss from Ohio allowed me to stay as much as Cody wanted. The hotel extended his room as well as the Michelle number so her loved ones could stay there and pick up her belongings. Relatives Waugh are grateful to Cody for not leaving Michelle alone. Sister Bo is confident that if it were not for Robertson, the family would still not know about her fate.
