When Patience Carter decided to visit Orlando with her friend’s family, she was not expecting to be within inches of losing her life.
Patience Carter, 20, was one of the 53 injured at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Sunday night. She sat down during a press conference on Tuesday to discuss the horrific event.
Like several others, Carter fled to the bathroom the she heard the gunshots. She recalls the gunman, Omar Mateen, on the phone with police negotiators, saying that he had pledged his allegiance to ISIS and that he would not stop killing until the United States stopped bombing their people. According to Carter, when he hung up the phone, he began speaking in Arabic to someone, but she wasn’t sure who.
Carter said that Mateen made it clear that he didn’t intend to harm any black people. She says that when Mateen entered the bathroom he asked, “Are there any black people in here?” Carter did not answer out of fear, but another club goer did, in which Mateen replied, “I don’t have a problem with black people. This is about my country. You guys suffered enough.”
It was apparently Latin night at Pulse, with many of the victims being from Puerto Rico. There were still a handful of Black patrons that were killed that night also.
Carter also details lying on the floor looking over the “piles” of bloody bodies in the bathroom while making peace with God. She says that the gunman came in to execute the last few people in the bathroom, including the man that was shielding her. Had he not, she would have died.
When police breached the club, they burst a water pipe in the bathroom. Carter says that she feared she would drown in a pool of bloody water.
Patience Carter was the young lady who shared a poem about having survivors remorse. Her two friends, whom she came to the club with, were also among the wounded. One of them died.
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