Family Michael Waltrip Met Before Las Vegas Shooting ‘Physically Fine’

Former NASCAR driver and FOX Sports analyst Michael Waltrip took time to talk to a family at the Camping World Truck Series race in Las Vegas. And after the shooting at Route 91 Harvest, which they had told him they would attend, he spent the next two days wondering if the father and daughter still were alive.

Waltrip tweeted Wednesday that he got in touch with the family he befriended at the Las Vegas 350, and that they are “doing as well as could be expected.”

The two-time Daytona 500 winner revealed Tuesday on Instagram the father and his daughter he met at Las Vegas Motor Speedway were heading to the concert along with the man’s wife and other daughter for a 21st birthday celebration. In fact, he said “Route 91 was the reason she chose Vegas for her 21st.”

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Waltrip apparently also had planned to go to the concert but coincidentally “called it an early night.”

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