LAS VEGAS, Nev. (WTHR) - A photo of an Indiana native helping a man during the Las Vegas shooting has gained worldwide attention.
When the shots began to rain down on music fans at a concert in Las Vegas Sunday night, nurse Lorisa Loy sprang into action. Helping a man in a wheelchair named George, she also prepared tourniquets and performed CPR on others who were injured.
She did all of this with a severely sprained ankle and bruises all over her body.
Back at her Las Vegas home Tuesday, she says she was just doing what needed to be done.
"My daughter went to push George off of the wheelchair and I said, 'No, no, no, no. You're not pushing. You get down and I'll push him'," Loy said.
Loy, who graduated from Homestead High School in Fort Wayne, was at the concert with her daughter.
She also shared stories of how complete strangers were doing whatever they could to save lives.
"Some guy was...I said 'I need a shirt. I needed a shirt.' People were giving me their shirts off their back so we could, you know, make tourniquets, I could give compressions without getting too much blood. I had no gloves, no one had gloves, you know," she said.
Loy said she is not a hero, but admits that if it were not for strangers quickly coming together to take care of the wounded, the number of fatalities could have been much higher.
"Nope. That's not what it is at all. That was just one person doing one thing. Everyone pulled together. It's crazy all these...this picture's everywhere. I wasn't the only one doing anything...you know, people were coming together everywhere. We were all in the back, picking up people and throwing them in the back of the truck and it was just mass chaos," Loy said. "'You give CPR, you do this, you hold pressure. You do this...' It's what we did, you know?"
While she doesn't consider herself a hero, Loy says she's proud of her work as a nurse and that she could be there for others in need.
"Very, very thankful. Very blessed. But I love my job, I love career. I always say if I could blink my eyes and change my career, I would never do it. It's the truth," she said.