Vegas hero survived mass shooting but died of suicide; parents now looking for those he saved

  Vegas hero survived mass shooting but died of suicide; parents now looking for those he  saved                                                                                      

 Although Scotty Pettersen couldn't bring himself to search for the people he helped for fear they didn't survive, his parents are desperate to find,

When a country music concert turned into a killing field in Las Vegas, Scotty Pettersen of Seattle helped so many gunshot victims, he lost count.

As the bullets hit hundreds of people, the 27-year-old Pettersen ran his girlfriend and a nearby family to the safety of an ambulance.

The paramedics were out helping others but inside the ambulance were four gunshot victims. Pettersen’s EMT and firefighter training kicked in.

“I grabbed gauze, grabbed bandages and started wrapping a guy up, and another guy came up who was shot in the back, and I started wrapping him,” Pettersen told KIRO-TV in Seattle just a few days after the massacre that killed 58 people on Oct. 1, 2017. It remains the

As Pettersen was helping the man with the back wound, a woman who had been shot in the thigh showed up "bleeding everywhere,” Pettersen said. “Two seconds later a guy comes in with a shoulder wound. Another five seconds, a lady comes in with a neck wound.

“It didn't stop,” he said.

Pettersen treated victims until he was covered “head to toe” in their blood and the ambulance was out of supplies.