The woman, who is currently unidentified, was attending the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, where the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history occurred. After escaping the event, the woman was picked up by a Las Vegas taxi driver. She reportedly showed the driver her rose-colored iPhone and told him that it had saved her life while she was fleeing the festival grounds. The taxi driver then took a picture of the device, which was posted to Twitter by CNN Executive Producer Jason K. Morrell.
While the handset was shattered by the bullet, the woman was reportedly unharmed, according to local media outlet KLAS. The iPhone 7 Plus has a backing made of aluminum alloy.
The woman was one of roughly 22,000 people attending the music festival when a gunman opened fire around 10 p.m. from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, located across the street from the festival grounds. A total of 59 people were killed and more than 500 were injured.
