“I never thought in a million years my eyes could witness something so tragic”, Carter said as she read her poem, saying that the “guilt of being alive is heavy”.
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At another gathering – Angel Colon- with some of the medical team that saved his life- said the attack at Orlando’s pulse night club came with no warning. “I’m just laying down thinking, ‘I’m next, I’m dead.’ So, I don’t know how, but by the glory of God, he shoots toward my head but it hits my hand”.
“What I know concretely is that he was driving around that evening and visited several locations”, Dyer said. The gunman opened fire.
“I look over and he shoots the girl next to me”, Colon said. “So, he is dragging me out while I am just getting cut”.
“All I could hear was the shotgun – one after another”. “I will never forget the words he said to me”, Matthew Gentili of News 13 said. For five to 10 minutes, he was “just shooting all over the place”, Colon said.
Later, as a policeman dragged him to safety, his body was cut by shards of broken glass.
“I don’t have a problem with black people”, Mateen reportedly said in reply.
“This hospital is fantastic”, he said.
Appearing in a wheelchair, Colon turned to the doctors and nurses and said: “I will love you guys forever”. I was shot three times in my leg. I had fallen down.
As police entered, the hostages warned them about possible snipers, Carter said.
About 15 people were crammed into a handicap stall. At first, she thought the DJ was playing the noises to get people to leave. “We hear more gunfire and people screaming”, Santiago recalled.
“I can’t recall how many bullets, but it sounded like he unloaded”, Santiago said.
That’s how Carter, a Fox29 intern from North Philadelphia and college student at NYU, described the horrific Orlando club shooting over the weekend. A recording of the 911 call has not been released. Santiago said club patrons immediately scattered. Twenty people remained hospitalized Tuesday, six of whom were in critical condition. Another friend at the club with him was not hurt. “I got trampled over”, he said.
Patience Carter, 20, is another survivor of the mass shooting at the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse, where 49 people were killed and 53 wounded.
After Mateen left the bathroom, Parker said she had enough strength to text her mother. She also said that the killer uttered the following words.
She dropped to the floor and started crawling to their exit before heading over to join her friend Miss Carter. It wasn’t until she saw the damage the assault rifle’s bullets were doing to the wall did she realize what was happening.
Carter said she and Murrey actually went back in to try to save Parker.
After what felt like “hours and hours”, she heard police yell to get away from the wall.
These were people who, at certain points, were convinced they were going to die.
It was in that bathroom that Mateen made the call to 911 and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. She is from Philadelphia and was in Florida for the first time on vacation with friends.
Patience Carter feels pain from the gunshot wounds in her legs.
Carter said that she was wounded in both of her legs. “I was able to sit up and pull my left leg from underneath the person who was killed in front of me”. The friend that Carter and Akyra had gone back into the club to rescue survived.
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Patience also wrote a poem about the guilt of surviving the incident.
