Owen performed right before Jason Aldean and was standing on the side of the stage with a couple friends when the gunman opened fire.
On NBC's TODAY show the singer described what happened on the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
"We were literally standing 50 feet from where Jason was on stage, and all of a sudden, you heard what sounded you know, it was kind of a thing where you were like, 'Is that gunfire? And it just got faster and faster, almost it was an automatic rifle.
Owen said he was trying to rush to his tour bus, but it was on the opposite side of the stage and at one point, he found himself crouched down behind a cop car with 20 other attendees.
"There's blood on people and you could see a couple folks in the streets that looked like they had been shot lying there. It was chaotic. It was literally like a movie that you feel like you've seen before that's not real life.
Aldean, who was performing when a gunman opened fire on concert-goers, had described the incident as "beyond horrific.
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