SARA JANE MOORE: Uh, I think it's the St. Then she drives downtown to this-this big fancy hotel. LATIF : So Sarah Jane on this Monday morning, she wakes up early, drops her nine year old off at school, runs a few errands. SARA JANE MOORE: I was kind of, you know, in my own head. I don't remember anything different, so I assume it was a nice day. ROBERT: Well, let's just, let's just go back to San Francisco on a particular day at a particular time. ROBERT: And today, we are going to start. It’s back in the time when I was hosting the show with Robert Krulwich, so I don't know, let's just let it roll. This is back in the days when Latif was a producer and this is before he was hosting the show with Lulu Miller and I. But inside that single human being story is-in that kind of universe, in a blade of grass sort of way-is everything. Like you've got this single human being going through something truly unique and difficult. It's one of those like perfect stories where all the different things you want in a story come together all at once. So today I want to play for you really one of my favorite stories we've ever done on Radiolab. Thousands of people gathered Tuesday evening in several venues across the city to mourn those lost in Sunday's massacre.Ī bell chimed as each of the 49 names of the deceased were read at a vigil at the First Baptist Church of Orlando.JAD ABUMRAD: This story contains a couple moments of profanity, cursing-just a few. The Orange County Medical Examiner's Office said Tuesday evening that 20 of the 49 killed clubgoers have been released to funeral homes. Of the 44 patients taken to hospitals after the shooting, 22 are still admitted, with four in critical condition, according to hospital officials. to take the soul out of my body because I didn't want to feel any more pain," she said. She had a shattered right femur and another shot in her left thigh. Patience Carter, a victim in the Pulse nightclub shooting from Philadelphia, becomes emotional after giving her story during a news conference at Florida Hospital Orlando, June 14, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.Īfter she and her two friends were shot, they remained trapped with the gunman for hours, she said. 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.
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. Angel Colon, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting, listens during a press conference with Orlando Health trauma staff at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Jin Orlando, Florida.