"GUNFIRE." "OH, MY GOD, THEY'RE SHOOTING BACK-AND-FORTH." "So many lives ended in minutes." "We have shots fired." "You're requested to stay back, don't enter the scene." "People killed by a gunman who fired into crowds without mercy." "We'd hear gunshot after gunshot after gunshot, pop, pop, pop." "It is the dead least mass shooting in recent US history." "As they ran out of the bathroom into the hallway, he started shooting them and killing them right." "There But this is not a film about the killer." "I could care less about him." "I don't care anything about him." "I don't want to speak his name." "I don't want to see his picture." "I don't want to do any of that." "It's about the people inside the club when the shooting started." "I just had to leave my eyes open because I was scared if I blinked he was going to shoot me in my face." "I'm looking around like, this is actually happening, oh, my God." "MUSIC It's Saturday night in Orlando." "Around 300 people are in Pulse, a gay nightclub." "We all had worked during the day that day." "We were all off that night." "We decided to go out and have a good time. 26-year-old Angel Colon is out with his friends." "We just had a good night." "It was a nice night, very calm, very chilled." "There was no drama." "Doorman, Imran Yousuf, has just started working at" "Pulse." "He's an ex-US marine who served in Afghanistan." "Saturday nights are a Latin night." "My favourite night." "I love the music." "So, it was regular night." "Miguel Lieva is out celebrating." "He's just recovered from cancer." "It was packed." "I mean elbow to elbow, people dancing." "Everybody's having a good time." "In town on holiday, best friends Tiara Parker and Patience Carter." "They're with Tiara's cousin," "Akyra Murray." "Me and Tiara have always been best friends." "When I got invited on this vacation, I made it, like, one of my plans was to get to know Akyra better." "She was a funny person." "Chef was really sweet. -- she was really sweet." "She captivated a room." "I was just watching my cousin and best friend." "They were bonding." "They were really enjoying themselves." "It was really a great night." "We had the best time of our lives." "A gunman, armed with an assault rifle and a handgun, walks into the club." "Amanda Alvear is filming as the shooting starts." "Behind her people are being killed." "Amanda won't make it out alive either." "We were on the main area, the main floor, then out of nowhere we hear a big, loud gunshot." "Was that really gunshots?" "That's the only thing in my head." "There's no way that was a gunshot." "There's no way." "It kept going." "We just start running and we just hear gunshot after gunshot after gunshot - pop, pop, pop." "I had to take two steps into running and I was shot already." "I can't move anywhere, so I decided to take cover and stay on the floor." "I'm looking around and you just see the bodies flying down." "He's shooting all over the place." "An off-duty police officer is outside the club." "He immediately looked where the gunshots were coming from and engaged the suspect." "The killer." "He was armed with a handgun." "The killer was armed with a rifle, which is a lot more power than our handguns." "The shots started ringing out." "We're like what is that?" "I stood froze." "I didn't know what to do." "Then I realised that when the shots got closer, I seen like wall chippings, like you know, I feel like wall pieces are falling on my arms and I just couldn't believe what I was seeing." "Patience and Akyra manage to escape." "I'm outside, but where's" "Tiara?" "And she's like Tiara's inside." "I'm just like, we've got to go get Tiara." "They go back into the club." "It's a decision that will change their lives." "Inside the gunman is shooting into the crowd." "Imran is in a staff corridor at the back of the club." "People started pouring in." "At this point, now, I'm cornered with everyone else and we're all just like packed." "It was distraught." "Fear like you couldn't even imagine, just eyes that were just bulging, just having no idea what to do." "They were just lost." "Honestly, looking at those faces, you can tell a lot of them accepted the reality." "I mean, that they were dead, there's no way out of here." "But there is a way out, a security door that club goers haven't seen." "I am yelling, "Open the F-ing door." I could hear the gunshots getting louder and closer." "So, to me, it was if I reach for this door, I'm going to get shot and die." "I jumped over the people that were there." "I unlatched that door and I opened it." "Everyone started pouring out." "The people caught in that corridor can now get out." "But dozens more are trapped in the toilets." "Miguel is one of them." "He can hear the gunman talking." "He says, "Everybody come out because everybody's gonna die." So people listened to him and they ran out of the bathroom." "As they ran out of the bathroom into the hallway, he just started shooting them and killing them right there." "Patience and Akyra have found Tiara and the three friends are hidden in a stall in the other toilet." "It's packed." "The gunman is now moving towards them." "It wasn't even registering until like he came in and started pop, pop, pop, pop..." "Looking around like, this is actually happening, oh, my God." "And we had to get on the floor of the bathroom stall and I'm just like on the floor." "I'm like, oh, my God." "This is actually happening." "It was like shhh, shhh." "Be quiet, be quiet!" "I remember hearing him saying, "My gun's jammed." And I'm just like shocked, like, so my Patience looks at me." "I look at Patience, I look at my cousin." "And Patience is like we can jump him and get out of here." "By that time, the person that was holding onto the door got the memo that was going to be the plan." "When he opened the door the shooter shot into the stall." "Me Patience and Akyra were the first to get those shots." "Everybody occur rig around screaming like, "Please stop." "Please!" It wasn't until I looked down at my leg and I saw the blood, just like coming out of my right thigh." "I'm like" " I've been shot." "The gunman is heading back to the dance floor, where Angel is lying injured." "He's been shot three times and his leg has been broken in the stampede of people trying to get out." "I have this lady now that has fallen next to me." "She's yelling." "She's in pain." "I tell her, "Grab my arm." "I got you." "We're together in this, all right?" "She's Brenda McCool a mother of 11 on a night out with one of her sons." "I hear the gunshots, now they're getting closer." "Now he's back in the same room that I'm in again." "I don't see his face, but I notice all the gunshots are slower, you know, ba, ba, ba." "And I notice he's shooting everyone that's on the floor, just making sure they're dead." "I can feel the heat of the gunshots getting closer, louder, closer and louder." "I look over and I see him shoot the girl next to me." "I'm thinking, "I'm next." "I'm dead." I just hear the shots - ba, ba, ba." "It was on me." "I feel my body jump." "And I just feel the warm of the blood, all the blood" "I'm losing." "I'm like oh, my God." "I can't believe he just shot me three more times, like, what is going on?" "Oh, God." "Right across from Pulse, it's full of cops." "A police team arrives at the club." "It's been just six minutes since the shooting was reported to them." "They broke a window, entered through the Southend of the building." "They immediately went into gunfire looking for the killer." "They're shooting back-and-forth." "Vamanos." "The entire OPD shows up, all of Orlando Police department, just rushing down the road and blocking this entire area." "Shots are still going off." "These officers are getting out with guns and ready to start shooting." "Oh, my God." "They're all shooting back-and-forth." "The police assault forces the gunman to the back of the club." "Oh, my God." "People are getting shot, dude." "Let's get out of here, man." "Oh, my God." "They see people on the dance floor." "They see people running out of the club, people bleeding, people needing help." "They moved in and they rescued a lot of people." "It's probably pretty horrific for them." "I think they kind of put that aside, realised they needed to move and get people out of the club." "Mostly everyone's dead in that room." "I look up and I see an officer coming in." "I look at him and" "I'm like, "Please help me." "Please help me." "I'm on the floor." "I can't crawl." "There's glass everywhere." He comes running to me and tells me," ""The only way we can get out is if I grab your hands and I drag you." I was in shorts." "I could just feel the glass all over my legs and my bottom." "It's just, I'm just telling him, "Please hurry." "Hurry." He was able to drag me across the street to the restaurant where all the survivors and the bodies were." "He drops me off there." "I'm just laying down and I'm looking at the sky and I'm like, oh, my God, I made it." "The police now have the gunman trapped in the toilets." "The shooting stops." "But there are dozens of hostages, including Patience, Tiara and Akyra." "You're looking at somebody's face, their soul is just gone." "Mood all over the bottom -- blood all over the bottom of a toilet, that part of the toilet was just blood all over it, just a hand, like blood all over it." "You look back, you could barely see, but you could see piles of people on top of each other just as terrified and bloody as you are and someone directly behind you scared to death." "Then you just have to..." "God, God, please." "The gunman makes the first of four calls to the police." "You can hear him get on the phone with 911." "He pledge as leaningance to Isis." "And we're just like, oh, my God, is this seriously happening right now?" "Because this is the stuff that we only see on TV." "He says it's nothing personal towards you guys." "He said," "I'm just trying to make my message heard." "This is kind of like a terrorist event, so it kind of raises the stakes a little bit, because you know his only mission now is to kill as many people as he can." "Commander Heavy." "Go ahead." "I just saw you walking back behind." "I have a ballistic vest for any of our individuals that are entering the red zone." "After leading the escape, Imran starts helping other survivors." "IMRAN YUSUF:" "They were being brought out by other people and so we went over there to help and we were told, let's bring all the wounded to an area that cops already set up." "The nearest hospital is only half a mile away." "DR JOSEPH IBRAHIM:" "There was a lot of blood." "And these were massive injuries, abdominal wounds, chest wounds, that he must have been very close, with an assault rifle, that I've not seen that before." "ANGEL COLON:" "I was in the first round that were able I was yelling at them," ""Turn me around, turn me They told me it was like a puzzle, like how are we going to put this DR JOSEPH IBRAHIM:" "We had eight pass away in the emergency department and one on the way to the operating room." "So, you know, having to stop, with one patient so that you can move on to the next one, that you could, potentially, save." "That, that was the hardest part, it's, you know, saying OK, In the toilet stalls, phones keep ringing." "PATIENCE CARTER:" "It was families calling and they wanted Phones just kept ringing and text messages kept going off and he said turn them off, like, give me your phone, he didn't want anybody to be on the phone." "But some hostages are secretly talking to the police." "MIGUEL LIEVA:" "We were already in contact with the negotiator, one of the guys was talking to the negotiator, he was whispering So as we're, we're getting the details from the Swat team they're telling us that they were gonna come This is what's happening" "in one of the toilets." "MIGUEL LIEVA:" "There was nothing we can do." "We were just trying to be quiet because so he didn't come The gunman's told them there's one outside and he has a suicide vest." "TIARA PARKER:" "He said I have enough bombs that can take out a city block, that's when I knew my life was over." "The police Swat team stay inside despite the bomb threat." "CAPTAIN MARK CANTY:" "It didn't really change their mission, they knew they had to get people inside, they weren't really thinking of themselves because I think common sense probably tells you - hey, if somebody has a bomb," "you need to back away. could have the Swat team to move," "I don't think they would have listened to me cos they knew they had to stay where they were because there were people inside that they could With the killer close by, the police take a chance." "They remove an air conditioning unit, helping more CAPTAIN MARK CANTY:" "They push that air-conditioning unit out a hole in the wall and pulled people out of that hole." "Obviously if you just push it, it will fall and the killer will possibly know that there's more people, A lot of coordination went through that." "The officers put themselves in great peril." "The people inside, I'm sure, were terrified and to kind of maintain control and keep quiet and listen to officers and do By now the police have full control of the club ?" "The killer is outside the stall where the three friends TIARA PARKER:" "I remember him bending down and looking under like this and when I seen him do that I just had to leave my eyes open because I was scared if I blinked he was going to shoot me in my face." "So I just stayed like this and I'm guessing he must have thought PATIENCE CARTER:" "We were helpless, we were completely helpless and that was the scariest thing to see his feet just keep moving, He even said, "I got plenty of bullets," at one point, clicking and reloading his gun," "tormenting us for hours CAPTAIN MARK CANTY:" "I was called back to the command post to brief I told them that our best option was to do an explosive breach on one The Chief said, "Let me know when you're ready." PATIENCE CARTER:" "So time has passed, time has passed and then all of a sudden out of nowhere we hear this, like, explosion it sounded like, and everyone just jumps, everybody in the bathroom stall just, their whole, entire, everybody's entire body shakes" "and I even think he shook CAPTAIN MARK CANTY:" "They set the charge, the whole wall in as we expected but it did kind of go through." "PATIENCE CARTER:" "This speaker goes off that says: "Get so we know that it's the police, it's the police right there, TIARA PARKER:" "I thought the shooter was blowing down the building PATIENCE CARTER:" "He comes in our stall, says, "Hey you" CAPTAIN MARK CANTY:" "We used our Bear Cat armoured vehicle which has a ram on the front, to push They were able to make that hole large enough to get people out and then they were able to get several hostages out of that hole." "MIGUEL LIEVA:" "I was the third person out." "When I got out I fell belly first and I noticed that one of the guys we were trying to keep alive the whole time they just left him there," "I guess they thought he was dead." "So I'm like, "He's still alive, he's still alive, and there's people." The last three people came out behind me and the Swat team member So I grab his arm and his leg and I" "was run...running, the gunman comes out through, through the hole that they just CAPTAIN MARK CANTY:" "He's in that hole, he's got guns in his hands and obviously points them at our officers." "PATIENCE CARTER:" "And then they say," ""Put your weapon down, put your weapon down,"" "and he's not doing it TIARA PARKER:" "The shell casings are like ricocheting off of things so, like, I'm getting burned, it feels like the branding, like I'm getting branded, like I just feel it." "And I remember, after that, I seen him die." "They didn't even have to confirm that." "PATIENCE CARTER:" "Under the debris of the wall and the, the stall in my face I'm just like, is it over, is it over, TIARA PARKER:" "The sparks stopped and this was really Patience and Tiara's friend," "Akyra, is barely alive." "TIARA PARKER:" "I pulled" "Akyra by her clothes onto my lap and I said," ""Akyra, get up, get up right now, get up, they're here, they're here, get up." And I was just like, you know, I grabbed her neck and she was still breathing," "I grabbed her hand and she didn't respond to me but I grabbed her hand again and she clenched me back CAPTAIN MARK CANTY:" "He's a killer." "He's an evil killer." "I think about the victims and their families, I think about the city and how the city is coming together." "Those are the things that" "I think about, I couldn't care less about him," "I don't care anything about him, I don't want to speak his name," "I don't want to see his picture" " Across Orlando, there have been memorials and vigils." "But the city is still grieving for its dead." "MIGUEL LIEVA:" "And just to watch so many people die for no reason is, People have described you as a hero ?" "do IMRAN YUSUF:" "Real heroes, a lot of them paid DR JOSEPH IBRAHIM:" "Yesterday, leaving, I drove by, there's a memorial out here on Lake Beauty, they have a bunch of memorials set up, and seeing the friends and family coming together and crying over someone you were potentially working Angel has been reunited with" "the police officer who rescued him." "I was one of the ones that helped you get out of harm's way ANGEL COLON:" "Seeing that girl get shot next to me." "Because, actually, I found out that the guy to my And he actually had called me yesterday. "Now I can come to closure", cos he knew that she died ANGEL COLON:" "And I was telling her, it's going to be OK." "PATIENCE CARTHER:" "Tiara and her mother comes in." "Miss Celeste, that's" "Tiara's mum's name, she sits on the bed next to my legs, Tiara's sitting on the side of my hospital bed, you know, and everybody's calm and then, Miss Celeste turns to me, TIARA PARKER:" "June 12th 2016 ?" "I will never forget that date."