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\"pulses_pictures_1439196212.81\"<\/a>Pulse Nightclub<\/p>\n

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At 2:00 AM on June 12, a 29-year-old man walked into gay nightclub, Pulse, in Orlando, Florida, and opened fire on the 350 people inside. He was armed with an assault rifle and a Glock, took hostages, and by 5:00 AM, 50 people were dead and 53 were injured. The shooter, Omar Marteen, was killed in a shootout with police. This mass shooting <\/a>is the worst in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

Twenty minutes into the shooting, Marteen called 911 and and claimed an allegiance to ISIS. It is now known that Marteen worked with a security company that has contracts with the federal government and has been\u00a0 there since 2007.<\/p>\n

Our daughter lives in Orlando, not far from Pulse.<\/p>\n

So my Sunday morning began with text messages from our friend Melissa, who used to live next door to us in Boynton, saying there had been a mass shooting in Orlando and was Megan okay? I immediately texted Megan, who said she was fine and that all of her friends were too. But one of her friends, Jon, had been working at Pulse last night as a valet. Parking isn\u2019t free and when drivers pull in without paying, Jon always approaches them and tells them it\u2019s five bucks to park. But at 1:30 AM on the morning of June 12, a car pulled into the lot without paying and Jon didn\u2019t approach the driver. That decision may well have saved his life. The driver was Omar Marteen.<\/p>\n

A while later, Jon was talking to the security guard outside the club and an alert came over the guard\u2019s radio that there was shooting inside the club. The guard told Jon to run and he raced across the street to Dunkin\u2019 Donuts. The scene was total chaos, with other people fleeing the club and running toward Dunkin\u2019 Donuts, some of them bleeding, all of them terrified. Marteen shot one of those fleeing people in the back and the man fell at Jon\u2019s feet. Jon saw two other people shot as they fled toward Dunkin Donuts.<\/p>\n

Megan was with Jon this morning and he broke down, sobbing.<\/p>\n

With any mass event, particular an act of such hatred and terror like this one, the aftermath usually reveals stories like Jon\u2019s, synchronicities that saved lives.<\/p>\n

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