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She didn't know his name, that he had a fiancé somewhere desperately waiting to hear from him or the nickname his mother called him.Heather Gooze learned it all after she spent the last moments of Jordan McIldoon's life with him, holding his hand as he gave one last faint squeeze and stopped breathing. He was a few months away from his 24th birthday and one of at least 59 people killed in Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas.In the frantic minutes after the shooting, as police arrived and concertgoers became saviors, Heather helped hold a ladder being used as a makeshift stretcher for Jordan, who had been shot in the head. Setting the ladder down on a sidewalk, the others went to look for more people to help."I felt like a squeeze on my fingers," Heather told CNN. "And then I just felt the fingers go loose."Other bystanders came by, tried tried to wake him and searched for a pulse. Jordan, a construction worker from Canada, was gone."I didn't want to walk away from this guy," she said.In the minutes and hours to come, Heather saw text messages come to Jordan's phone from concerned friends. She had to break the news to his fiancé, Amber, who was nearby but couldn't make it to "the love of my life." Later, Heather told his stunned mother, who shared details of her son's life.Heather promised she'd stay with Jordan's body."I was there until about 3:30 in the morning," said, "so for about four hours I was sitting with him. I just didn't want him to be there alone. There was another guy that was by his wife (who) had been shot and killed, the mother of his three kids and he never left her side. And I didn't want Jordan to not have somebody with him."I didn't want him to just be a no-named body. I knew who he was, and now I had an obligation to make sure that everybody knew who he was."