Vegas Attack Survivor: ‘I Was Agnostic Going in and Now I’m a Firm Believer in God’

‘You didn’t know where you were safe’

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CUOMO: "You said you believed the gunfire was coming from the Mandalay Bay? Did you have any sense and it can be hard to tell this kind of thing -- did you have any sense it was coming from above, from the 32nd floor?"
BENGE: "Part of me did just because of the vantage point he must have had to get some of the shots that I had seen, because there was a tent. And if it were on this side and I took cover here, there were still bodies on that side of people just laying in pools of blood. And I still didn’t even know if that was safe or not, but you know, it's kind of a fighter flight situation. You can't really -- you just have to take it to God at that point and, you know, hope that you can make it and hope that you are safe. And I know I can’t speak for everyone but for me was agnostic going into that concert and I’m a firm believer in God now because there's no way that, you know, all that happened and that I made it and I’m blessed enough to -- to still be here alive talking to you today."

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