Orlando shooting victims arrived by ‘truckloads’: Doctors

“He’s shooting everyone who’s already dead on the floor making sure they were dead”, Colon said, recalling how he played dead as the shooter passed around him. I was prepared to just stay there, laying down so that he won’t know that I’m alive.

After the barricade situation ended, the emergency room was notified they would be getting 20-25 more patients. I shattered and broke my bones on my left leg.

By this time, he goes up to the front, and I think that’s when he’s battling against the cops.

As Omar Mateen fired a shot toward his head, the 26-year-old Boston native simply thought, “I’m dead”.

The women tried to hide in a back bathroom, but then the gunman burst in, shooting a machine gun, Carter said. “We grabbed each other and started running”.

The doctors were joined by Angel Colon, who survived the attack after being shot multiple times.

Dr. Michael Cheatham of Orlando Regional Medical Center says hospital and trauma centers prepare for disasters, but “you can never prepare adequately”.

A hospital official told reporters that none of the victims have died at the facility since the first nine were brought in.

Orlando Police Chief John Mina and FBI Director James Comey said he talked to 911 dispatchers three times in the hours before he was killed by police.

He said the shooter shot his hand and the side of his hip as he aimed for Colon’s head.

U.S. law enforcement officials are investigating reports that Mateen may have been gay himself, but not openly so, two officials said on Tuesday, with one describing the massacre as a possible “self-hate crime”. Before long, they “started lining up in the hallway”, said Dr. Kathryn Bondani on Tuesday.”They were being dropped off in truckloads and ambulance loads”.

A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in front of the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando. Fifty-three, including Colon were wounded.

He thanked the doctors and nurses who worked to save his life, but saved his harshest words for Omar Mateen, the New York-born man who police say launched the deadly attack.

“I was on call again (Monday) night, and I was walking out of the hospital – and walking out, I saw team members walking in to work crying”, Smith said. “He grabs my hand, and he’s like, ‘This is the only way I can take you out, ‘ and I say, ‘Please carry me, because I’m in pain right now.’ I couldn’t walk or anything, so he drags me across the street to the Wendy’s”. “We stopped what we were doing and it keeps going”. “I didn’t feel pain, but I just felt all this blood on me, from myself, from other people”, Colon said.

When the gunman returned to the area where Colon was laying on the floor, Colon could again see the horrific crime unfolding around him.

“We were just given patient after patient after patient”, he said. Of those, 27 remain in the hospital, with 6 of those in intensive care.

They were hiding in a handicapped stall with other people, she said, when the shooter entered the room. “I see the barrel, I see the gun, and you’re seeing the flicker of the bullets coming out”. “The last girl I was talking to and then out of nowhere we just hear a big shock”, he said.