Former Red Sox Pitcher Escaped Las Vegas Shooting

BOSTON, MA – Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Mike Timlin was at the music festival near the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas Sunday night when a gunman took aim at the festival crowd and started shooting.

Timlin was among a group of people who escaped, unharmed, from the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, where at least 50 people were killed and more than 200 were injured in what officials are calling the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.

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Timlin tweeted twice from the concert, once prior to a shooting and once after to let people know he made it out safely.

"Please pray for all those who have been wounded," Timlin wrote. "All my group is ok."

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Country music star Jason Aldean was onstage when a gunman fired down at the crowd from the hotel. The shooter, who has been confirmed dead, was identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, a resident of Mesquite, Nevada.

Aldean and his crew were uninjured in the shooting. He later called the night's events "beyond horrific" in a statement on Instagram and offered his thoughts and prayers to everyone in attendance.

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Boston Red Sox's Mike Timlin delivers a warm-up pitch before the start of the fourth inning of a spring training baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at City of Palms Park, in Fort Myers, Fla., Thursday, March 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)