In club they shooting.” About 30 minutes later, hiding in a bathroom, he texted her: “He’s coming. Pulse patron Eddie Justice texted his mother, Mina: “Mommy I love you. “I was praying to God that I would live to see another day.” “My first thought was, oh my God, I’m going to die,” Alamo said. “You ever seen how Marine guys hold big weapons, shooting from left to right? That’s how he was shooting at people,” he said. Jon Alamo had been dancing at the Pulse for hours when he wandered into the club’s main room just in time to see the gunman. Thirty-nine of the dead were killed at the club, and 11 people died at hospitals, Mayor Buddy Dyer said. The gunman’s father recalled that his son recently got angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami and said that might be related to the assault. Authorities immediately began investigating whether the assault was an act of terrorism and probing the background of Mateen, a 29-year-old American citizen from Fort Pierce, Florida, who had worked as a security guard.
