Watch The Moment When Woman Wounded In Las Vegas Is Reunited With Man Who Saved Her

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Justin Uhart hadn’t seen Jan Lambourne since he carried her to safety on Sunday night in Las Vegas as a gunman fired on tens of thousands of people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.

Their Wednesday reunion at Lambourne’s hospital bedside, captured by CBS News, was understandably emotional.

“There she is! Hey, how you doing?” Uhart said, embracing a crying Lambourne.

Lambourne, recovering from a gunshot wound in the stomach, was relieved to see Uhart was all right, she told CBS. “It was a rough night for both of us, but if it wasn’t for him, I would not be here.”

Uhart said he spotted the wounded woman on the festival grounds and helped carry her to a field, where medical personnel were treating the injured.

“It’s just an instinct. I don’t know,” he said. “I put my hand on the wound … and then I start screaming, ‘Medic! Medic!’ She was terrified.”

He attempted to distract her, he added, asking questions about her cats and her home.

“She was in a lot of pain. … And I said I won’t leave her, and she had a death grip,” Uhart recounted. “It’s a desperate grip that I cannot describe. She was always saying don’t leave me … and I promised, I just promised I wouldn’t leave.”

Uhart stayed by Lambourne’s side, holding her hand until she went into the operating room, she remembered.

“I wasn’t letting go any more than he was, I think ’cause, you know, we were gonna survive this and we did,” she said.

Lambourne and 171 others remain hospitalized in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. About 317 people have been released after treatment for injuries.

Officials still haven’t determined a motive.

The gunman may have had help in the attack, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said in a news conference Wednesday. The sheriff said the killer, who shot himself in the head as police closed in, likely plotted an escape for himself.

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People hug and cry outside the Thomas & Mack Center after a mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas.
People hug and cry outside the Thomas & Mack Center after a mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Oct. 2, 2017, in Las Vegas.
A cowboy hat lies in the street.
A cowboy hat lies in the street.
Las Vegas police search for the gunman while protecting fleeing fans.
Las Vegas police search for the gunman while protecting fleeing fans.
Fans run from the Route 91 Harvest festival after a gunman opened fire.
Fans run from the Route 91 Harvest festival after a gunman opened fire.
Others dive for cover.
Others dive for cover.
Some fans drop to the ground.
Some fans drop to the ground.
People run from the Route 91 Harvest festival.
People run from the Route 91 Harvest festival.
People scramble for cover.
People scramble for cover.
A man in a wheelchair is helped away.
A man in a wheelchair is helped away.
People run for cover. 
People run for cover. 
A person takes cover amid the shooting. 
A person takes cover amid the shooting. 
 A person runs barefoot from the shooting. 
 A person runs barefoot from the shooting. 
Police officers stop a man who drove down Tropicana Avenue near Las Vegas Boulevard, which had been closed.
Police officers stop a man who drove down Tropicana Avenue near Las Vegas Boulevard, which had been closed.
A pair of cowboy boots lies in the street outside the concert venue.
A pair of cowboy boots lies in the street outside the concert venue.

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