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She said that at first she thought he had a BB gun but then realized she was being hit with particles from a wall that was coming apart from the force of assault rifle bullets. "We just went from having the time of our lives to having the worst night of our lives," she told reporters today during a news conference at Florida Hospital in Orlando.Ĭarter described the terrifying moments when Mateen entered the bathroom and started shooting, leaving people injured on the floor. They went back for their friend and ended up being trapped in a bathroom as the gunman got closer, she said.
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Patience Carter, 20, said she was at the club with two friends during a family vacation to Orlando when the gunman ran in and started shooting.Ĭarter said she and one of her friends ran outside and initially escaped the area but soon realized their other friend was missing. Due to the heroic efforts of the officer, Colon said, he was out of Pulse roughly 25 minutes after the shooting erupted.ĭoctors and medical staff that treated the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting answer questions at a news conference at the Orlando Regional Medical Center, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Florida.Ī Philadelphia woman recounted the frightening hours she spent locked in a bathroom with the gunman at Pulse. Colon was wearing shorts at the time, he said, and received cuts up and down his body. The officer then grabbed him and dragged him across the broken glass. "Let's go," Colon said he told the officer. "The only way I can get you out of here is if I just grab your hands and I run," the officer said, according to Colon.Ĭolon asked to be carried and the officer told him that it wasn't possible, and that they would be forced to run. Speaking from his hospital bed, Colon told ABC News about an officer who he says helped him escape while the killer was engaged in a gun battle with police. "I shattered and broke my bones on my left leg." "I tried to get back up, but everyone started running everywhere, and I got trampled over," Colon said. He was shot three times in the leg and was trampled as he lay on the floor, he said. "Out of nowhere, we hear a big shot, and then we stop what we're doing, and it keeps going," Colon told reporters Tuesday at the Orlando Regional Medical Center.