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Showing Original Post only (View all)Tell them I'm in the bathroom. He's coming. I'm gonna die': Terrified last text son sent to his mom [View all]
Source: UK Daily Mail
A mother has recounted the last text she received from her terrified son after a gunman opened fire inside a Florida nightclub early Sunday
Mina Justice was outside the club trying to contact her 30-year-old son Eddie Justice, who texted her when the shooting happened and asked her to call police.
He told her he ran into a bathroom with other club patrons to hide and then wrote 'he's coming.'
'The next text said: "He has us, and he's in here with us,"' Mina Justice said. 'That was the last conversation.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3637576/Terrified-text-son-sent-mother-Orlando-terror-unfolded.html
Imagine being that mother. Thank you, NRA.
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Tell them I'm in the bathroom. He's coming. I'm gonna die': Terrified last text son sent to his mom [View all]
Feeling the Bern
Jun 2016
OP
The young man who tweeted his mother was named Eddie Justice--and he has been confirmed dead. nt
tblue37
Jun 2016
#28
Our gun laws affirm that this outcome is acceptable if the alternative is gun regulation. n/t
TonyPDX
Jun 2016
#2
Remember not Joe the not Plumber's disgusting open letter after the Santa Barbara shooting?
tblue37
Jun 2016
#16
I watched an interview with a survivor on CNN who said the left out the back patio and blocked door
snooper2
Jun 2016
#33