An Orlando police officer was on duty outside the club and moved to confront the gunman, Mina told reporters on Sunday. On Saturday night, the sprawling club in downtown Orlando opened to Latin Night, one of the venue’s nightly themed events. “This had to be planned.”Torres wrote that he saw people “screaming and running, looking for their loved ones” and saw other “injured people sitting on the floor”. “At first, when I heard the shots, I thought it was part of the music, but then we realized it was really happening,” Kenneth Melendez told the Orlando Sentinel. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bullet hole left in a Kevlar helmet worn by the Orlando police officer.

Source: The Guardian June 12, 2016 16:26 UTC