Orlando Massacre: Teen Shot in the Attack Called Her Mom For Help Before She Bled To Death

Early Sunday, 12th of June, 2016, an American-born man, Omar Mateen who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11, authorities said.

The 29-year-old man carried an assault rifle and a pistol into the packed Pulse gay club about 2 a.m. Sunday and started shooting, killing 49 people and wounding at least 53.

According to CNN, after a standoff of about three hours, while people trapped inside the club desperately called and messaged friends and relatives, police crashed into the building with an armored vehicle and stun grenades and killed Mateen.

Akyra Murray, 18, the youngest victim of the nightclub shooting was celebrating her high school graduation with her cousin and a friend Saturday night when Mateen opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Natalie Murray, the teen’s mother said she received a text message and a call from her daughter around 2 a.m, saying she had been shot and needed help, Dailymail gathers.

She said: ‘She was saying she was shot and she was screaming, saying she was losing a lot of blood.’

Her parents rushed back to the club from nearby Kissimmee, frantically trying to reach their daughter, who had been shot in the arm.

‘I just tried to tell her to remain calm and apply pressure to the wound,’ Mrs Murray said.

‘All I could hear was my baby screaming.’

Mrs Murray then hung up the call so she could call the police. That was the last time that Murray’s parents heard from her. 

‘It was devastating,’ Mrs Murray said.

After three hours, the teenager slowly bled to death, hiding inside one of the nightclub’s bathroom stalls.

It took her parents 27 hours of searching hospital to hospital before they finally received a call that she was among the 49 victims, while Murray’s cousin, Tiara Parker, and friend, Patience Carter, are recovering at the hospital. 

When Carter was interviewed at Florida Hospital Orlando on Tuesday, she revealed more details about their three hours in hell – including the fact that she and Murray actually escaped the club shortly Mateen first started shooting.

However, the two young women returned inside to get their friend Parker, who had not made it out.

Carter says she feels exceptionally guilty about not telling Murray to stay outside, but that the young woman’s mother has assured her she did nothing wrong.

‘I was speaking to her mom and she told me to not feel guilty, God has his plan,’ she said.

Murray’s death came less than a week after she graduated third in her class of 42 students at West Catholic Preparatory High School in Philadelphia.

After the news of her daughter’s death, Murray’s father, Albert, expressed his regret at letting his daughter go to the club that night, saying he had resisted the plan at first.

‘She begged me to take her,’ Mr Murray wrote on Facebook. ‘I’m falling apart.’

“I lost my daughter, one of the greatest inspirations in my life.”