For the first time, a shooting victim who survived the Orlando Massacre publicly shared their story.
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Mr Colon says he could hear the screams of people as the firearm discharged time and time again. “We stop what we’re doing, and it just keeps going”. “I don’t feel pain, but I just feel all this blood on me from myself, from other people”.
Mr Colon was shot several times in the leg. He fell to the ground. “So by this time, I couldn’t get out of there on my own, I just laid there”.
Colon said the police officer dragged him across the street to the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, where he joined other shooting victims.
Then, as the first patients were rushed into surgery, a lull, as the gunman barricaded himself.
“Unfortunately, I hear him come back, and he’s shooting everyone dead on the floor, making sure they’re dead”, Colon said. Then another shot to his side.
“I tried to get back up, but everyone started running everywhere, and I got trampled over”, Colon said.
Framingham native Angel Colon, 26, said he was having a drink with friends when shots rang out inside Pulse nightclub early Sunday morning. And he was injured once more being dragged to safety over shards of broken glass.
“It was singularly the worst day of my career and the best day of my career”, an emotional Chadwick said, “and I would think that this is probably the same for every person you see standing up here”.
“Shattered both bones in my left leg”.
“The fear inside of me made me drop the the floor anyways”, she explained.
“He grabs my hand and he’s like, ‘this is the only way I can take you out”.
According to Dr. Michael Cheatham of Orlando Regional Medical Center 16 others are in stable condition. The second patient she worked on Sunday Night was Angel Colon, a man she says she will never forget. “I know everybody wishes they could do more”.
Even as they described their recollections to reporters, many doctors and nurses said Tuesday they were still coming to terms with what they had seen.
Just moments before Noblet had been at home asleep.
The doctors train for mass casualty events, and they’re prepared to triage patients in hallways, but nobody expects the biggest mass shooting in US history to happen on your watch, and in your town.
Patient after patient continued to pour in. “And my thought process was, you know, do we stay here and wait for the shooter to come back, or do we try to leave”, Santiago said.
Colon is unable to walk yet but his sister Denise said she is relieved that he is OK.
“I thought I was a little safe by this time because I thought it’s giving everyone time to tackle him and get him down”. Nine died upon arriving at the hospital, 27 are still admitted and the rest have since been released.
Six people remain in critical condition after the attack at the Pulse gay night club, with surgeons saying the death toll of 49 could still rise. It now stands at 49. Doctors managed to save 35 of them.
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Also, look out for Juan Conde’s report in which he speaks with two survivors.
