Four days after what some are calling the deadliest shooting spree in U.S. history, accounts from people who made it out alive from Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12 continue to pour in, with video taken by the cell phone camera of one of the survivors showing what words can not describe. The city's Local10 news station was able to obtain the footage while interviewing 29-year-old Miguel Leiva in his hospital bed on Thursday. In the graphic recording a group of club patrons are seen huddled on the floor, crying and hushing one another inside of the establishment's dark, red tinted bathroom.
The bathroom is said to have been Omar Mateen's final stop along the chilling steps of his massacre, blasting his way in before being cut down by SWAT team officers. Leiva, who suffered two bullet wounds to the shin, recounts witnessing some of the 49 tallied dead, perishing before his very eyes. “Half of those people were in the bathroom with me,” he said. Some 30 survivors were found in the shelter of the bathroom's stalls, each telling of having prayed through the sound of rapid fire, cries, and Mateen's "devilish laugh". It would be four hours before they were escorted to safety, stepping over dead bodies on their way out.
“We just stood quiet, and everyone's phone kept ringing,” recalled Leiva. “The only way we knew to let our families know ‘we're okay, we’re okay,’ was just to record it and let them hear we're trying to be quiet and send the video.”
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