The pair met just 24 hours prior to the 2017 mass shooting and escaped together during the rampage. They later fell in love and tied the knot. SAN DIEGO - A man and woman who met just 24 hours before they escaped the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting together have since fallen in love and gotten married. “Austin never left my side that night.
Hand in hand and complete strangers we ran across the entire festival grounds trying to escape the gunfire,” Chantal Melanson said of her now husband, Austin Monfort.
The couple met at Gilley’s Saloon in Las Vegas while in town for the Route 91 Harvest Festival, just a day before a gunman would open fire on concertgoers from the Mandalay Bay Hotel — killing 59 people and injuring hundreds more. “I thought