Eyewitness saw bodies, paramedics performing CPR

Sheldon Nipshank, who lives in the area, was walking by the festival and decided to check it out when he started to see police and paramedics running down the street.

Nipshank walked to the school field where Filipino American rapper Apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas had been performing.

“But the music wasn’t playing no more, obviously,” Nipshank said in an interview on CBC News Network.

As Nipshank was walking along a fence near a sidewalk, that’s when he says he started to see “bodies and injured people.”

He heard a woman yelling that she couldn’t feel her legs and saw police carry a man he believes was killed in the attack. Paramedics were performing CPR on another person on the ground, he said.

“They were going pretty hard trying to save his life,” Nipshank said. “It was pretty traumatic.”

Nipshank said he felt scared at the time and hadn’t fully processed the events.

“I live in a house with a group of guys,” he said. “I have a lot of people to talk to.”