Orlando Shooting: Woman Recounts Her Escape From Nightclub Amid Panic and Heroism

Letti Amador, 29, a paralegal at an Orlando law firm, has been going to the local Pulse nightclub every couple of months for the past decade.
Orlando Shooting: Woman Recounts Her Escape From Nightclub Amid Panic and Heroism
Left: Letti Amador, an Orlando paralegal who escaped from the June 12, 2016, mass shooting at local night club with a minor injury. (Courtesy of Letti Amador); Right: Pulse Orlando nightclub Monday, June 13, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Petr Svab
6/13/2016
Updated:
10/5/2018

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Letti Amador, 29, a paralegal at an Orlando law firm, has been going to the local Pulse nightclub every couple of months for the past decade.

She was there on Saturday, June 12, for Latino night.

Amador said she usually stays until 2 a.m. or 2:15 a.m., which is around closing time.

It was in those last 15 minutes that everything changed.

Amador was sitting at the main bar of the packed club with her friends and their usual bartender when they heard five or six loud bangs. They turned around, thinking perhaps somebody set off fireworks.

They didn’t believe it could have been gunshots.

But then the music stopped.