Jason Aldean says man who pulled him off stage during 2017 Las Vegas shooting has died
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Country music singer Jason Aldean says the man who pulled him off the stage when shots rang out at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in 2017 has died.
Aldean posted to Instagram saying Ryan Fleming, who worked as a security guard, died Wednesday. No cause of death was listed.
He described Fleming, nicknamed Rhino, as a friend from growing up in Georgia who previously worked as a bouncer and for a sheriff's office.
He said that when it came to hiring a security guard, there was no question that Fleming "would always look out for me and my family."
He was the person who pulled me offstage during the Route 91 shooting and put his life in danger to take care of me and my crew," Aldean wrote. "He was a good man and an even better friend. We will all miss you brother and thank you for having my back all these years.
Aldean was on stage performing at the music festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 when a series of shots were fired into the crowd from the Mandalay Bay hotel tower.
In the immediate aftermath, 58 people were killed and hundreds were injured in what became the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
In the years since, two additional people died from the injuries they sustained in the shooting. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officially recognizes the death toll as 60.
