Tampa Radio: Daughter of WQYK Host Safe After Shooting

Presley Kapsalis

A Tampa Bay Area radio host was at the Route 91 Music Festival just hours before the bullets started flying.

According to ABC ActionNews, Tom "Cadillac Jack" Kapsalis, of WQYK 99.5 FM flew out of Las Vegas on Sunday after attending two days of the festival. He was there with his daughter, Presley Kapsalis, who was celebrating her 21st birthday.

Tom "Cadillac Jack" Kapsalis

His daughter opted to stay for the third day of the festival. She was there when bullets started firing into the crowd.

"I almost feel helpless not being there," Cadillac Jack told ABC Action News. "I wish I could've been there. "

Cadillac Jack talked to her on the air Monday about what she experienced.

"It sounded like firecrackers," Presley told her dad. "It started up close and people started looking around wondering what was happening.”

She told her father that her boyfriend was shielding her from gun fire by throwing himself on top of her.

She said her group of friends managed to escape by running to the nearby House of Blues to seek shelter.

Now, Presley, who is studying to be a nurse and lives in Las Vegas, is encouraging everyone she knows to donate blood.