The only survivor to escape the bathroom of the Orlando
shooting nightclub has revealed how gunman Omar Mateen laughed fanatically as
he slaughtered his victims. Norman Casiano, 26, was shot four times as he hid
along with 30 others in the bathroom of Pulse nightclub.
But now out of hospital after just one day, he has recalled
the attack which left 49 people dead and another 53 injured. Speaking to Local
10 News, the 26-year-old said he threw
himself to the ground and made his way to the bathroom after the first two
shots were fired. He said as he was hidden in the bathroom, a clubber stumbled
in, bleeding as he collapsed on the floor.
Unable to fit in to the stalls because they were so packed,
the man was still on the floor as Mateen entered and shot him one more time. ‘The
scary part was that he didn’t say anything, and what’s scarier than that when
he shot the boy that was already shot, he laughed,’ Norman said.
‘And as he’s laughing as he fires through the whole front of
the stall. That’s when I got my first wound.’ Mateen then turned his attention
to the others trapped inside the cubicles, placing his gun over the top of the
stalls and spraying bullets towards them.
Norman survived by crawling over the bodies of his best
friends, escaping using the same hole Mateen would eventually try and escape
through. Deyni Ventura, a local pastor, told DailyMail.com that Casiano had a
miraculous escape.
‘He was laughing fanatically as he sprayed people with the gun,’ she said Casiano told her. ‘He was going “ha, ha, ha” as he shot them.’ ‘God was definitely with Norman on this day, his 26th birthday.’
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