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A Mandalay Bay hotel guest who was staying just a few doors down from Stephen Paddock during his music fest massacre on Sunday night has given a first-hand account of the terrifying experience.

“I could smell the gun powder,” recalled Sonny Morgan, a Georgia resident who flew to Las Vegas to attend a conference for work.

“I was actually watching the rest of the Sunday Night Football game and had gone to sleep,” he told WXIA-TV Atlanta. “Right around ten o’clock I woke up to the sounds of gunshots. Initially, I had kinda thought that it may have been some fireworks…and then it just kept going and going and going.”

After calling down to the desk, Morgan said hotel staff instructed him to barricade himself inside his room — explaining that they were aware of a “situation” on his floor and to remain calm.

He reportedly listened to the orders and built a pillow fort to protect himself as SWAT teams moved in to take out Paddock.

The 64-year-old, unbeknownst to Morgan, had been slaughtering concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival across the street from the Mandalay Bay. He wound up taking his own life just before police could get to him.

“I guess the guy had killed himself,” Morgan said, remembering how authorities had breached Paddock’s 32nd floor room and gotten into a shootout with him moments earlier.

“I heard a major explosion. I honestly thought it was like a terrorist attack at that point — that someone was trying to blow up the hotel,” he explained. “I kinda immediately called my wife because I didn’t know what was going on, you know, I said ‘I love you.'”

Police officials on Monday night said Paddock spent his last minutes alive desperately firing through the doorway of his hotel room. He managed to shoot one security guard before turning his gun on himself.

“I could hear the police making their way up the hallway and they were basically breaking down the doors — opening the doors aggressively,” Morgan recounted. “Six or seven SWAT guys came in and just made sure that I wasn’t a bad person – that I was doing what I was supposed to be doing. They ushered us out and told us to run as far and as fast as we could to get away.”

Once down on the ground, Morgan — who is from the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville — said he saw an “astronomical number” of police officers, but nobody offered details about what happened.

“We knew there was a shooter, we just didn’t know what extent,” he said.

Morgan told WXIA-TV that watching video footage of the shooting — and knowing he was so close to the person who was pulling the trigger — gave him chills.

“You watch the video and you hear the exact same sounds you heard last night and it kinda puts it into a different light when you understand what was happening,” he said.

Hotel officials have since moved Morgan to a different room, which eerily overlooks the area where the Harvest music fest was being held.

“The view out of where I am now is probably very similar to the view the guy had, and it is chaos,” Morgan said. “I can see down in to exactly where the folks were. I can see the windows were they were broken out… It’s really weird.”