News : A Victim Speaks About How He Escaped
This week is all about Orlando. I decided to dedicate our social media and blog strictly to the tragedy. Make sure to follow us on Facebook for articles, videos, tribute, news and more. Today’s story is about a survivor, Norman Casiano, who escaped from the bathroom when the murderer left it for few minutes, before he came back to kill everybody else.
Norman Casiano was shot in the back during the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. He was released from the hospital, and now he’s sharing his story with us. In this extremely well described interview, Norman tells New York Times reporter how his adrenaline led him to get out of the bathroom while most of his friends stayed inside. Most were killed few minutes after by Mateen.
Check out the video below and get your kleenex.
Dave
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It was very moving to see hm to explain just what happened at the Night Club. His will to survive was very apparent, especially after the gunman open fired on them, in the bathroom stall. After all that he still wanted to get out of there before he returned. This testament shows us all that, when tragedy happens, your will to live kicks in, which helps in saving your life. You know the adage It Wasn’t His Time is actually very true, he could have just stayed in the stall, and waited. But he decided that he had to get out to safety, and he was able to tell his story. Get well soon!
I wish this man the best for now and always. Such a shame, but am happy he lived to tell the world. I just hope he will come out mentally strong. Wounds can heal, but a mind is a funny thing. Best wishes to him and his family.
I live in Orlando and it is great to see the entire community coming together as one-not defined by someone’s race, sexual preference or other label society tries to place someone in. I hope someday we can live in a place in which someone identifies with their community that is made up of people from every dimension of diversity. Some of the guys that were killed at the club were on A4A and I even chatted with them before. My heart goes out to all who lost love ones and to the police, doctors, nurses and to the volunteers who have helped in moving our city forward.
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Wow, I wish him all the best as he continues to recover. He was very articulate in describing what happened.
This whole tragic event is so sad… Heartbreaking ….It will be dissected in the coming weeks and who knows what will develop… After helping the victims and their families we need to push for gun control… Assault weapons should not be accessible to the general public… It might not stop mass killings such as this, but their would be fewer victims and give more people a chance to get to safety.
man, ur will to survive and think outside the steel bars of fear and panic are so so admirable; as hideously tragic it is that the others trapped with you were killed, it’s also a miracle and honestly incredible that you were able to garner the strength and resolve to take the harrowing action of self preservation, letting your intuition guide you through a living version of hell. you are my hero, and you are an inspiration to me and others without a doubt! ONE LIFE, that should be the new mantra for getting past this and your ultimate recovery. praying for you and sending you all the healing energy and will i can muster….you fucking ROCK!
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Guys, Orlando could easily have been any one of our cities. Be kind to one another. So often we aren’t as nice as we could be to our brothers and sisters. But in the end, as Norman shows us, only one thing matters. It hasn’t anything to do with the transient things in life. And it’s a four lettered word.
LOVE
Let’s refer to him as a survivor, not a victim.
Let’s feature the song Pulse by Eli Lieb and Brandon Skeie.
And let’s contact our elected representatives and demand expanded background checks, reinstatement of the assault weapons ban, and a no fly/no buy policy.
Remind them that our votes aren’t bought by the NRA and that our hearts are full of love, not hate.
Some one said gay is a mental chemical imbalance and are born that way.bullshit God made us in his image he was not gay.its a choice lifestyle its against gods will how do gays reproduce .homosexuality is an abomination and wicked the whole world persecuted and kills gays but America cause liberals control the gov but repent now and God will forgive u ,the world and conservatives don’t approve and sometimes God allows incidents like Orlando I guarantee God wasn’t in that club that night and he wasn’t hearing ur prayers for mercy.so gay is not an illness it’s a disease God punishes with disease like AIDS don’t u all get it I’m done with this behavior i don’t want to go to hell and burn cause I chose to stick my dick in a mans ass
If u choose to be gay then what happens behind clothes doors and two men is their buisness but when u flaunt it and want the world to accept ur wickedness and abomination is when things like this happened .why do u feel the need to go out and parade naked and act like a fairy and act like a fagg and be proud of AIDS and cause u want the world to know u like it in the ass .cant sexuality stay in the bedroom and be safe and respect everyone’s choice not to be witness to ur gayness if u choose gay then just keep it in ur home bedroom not be a flame , American s don’t like this behavior look what happens when u want to paint the town in rainbow
Amen! Bulldozer 2010 is right in certain ways because most gay men and women will live their li es as if they can never be satisfied with one sex partner. They also cant chose a position and often lead a person on that they are a masculine top and they are a really a full blown bottom when they fet with a certain guy thats why I have ve en abstinent for over a year. I chose not to lose my soul or harm my body for a liar that said he was disease free and turns out he had an std. Now there are new stds coming out that are worse than the common one we were already aware of. My first thoughts were did any of the victims pray and ask for Gods forgiveness because they probably couldve had their lives spared. I had a sudden thought that came to my mind when I was at work one night before this tragic event happened and I was thinking a day when I went to an adult bookstore and some guy lit some firecrackers and a man wearing a dress took off running out the door I laughed but I was recently thinking what if that was a guy with a gun and we were all killed? My family wouldve wanted to know what was I doing there anyway? The guy that fired the firecrackers was pissed because noone was hooking up with him and I wonder is that heu they gunman in Orlando killed all those ppl? Was he mad because somebody he wanted in that particular club blew him off and left with another guy and he had some sort of hatred or anamosity? Or was it somebody he hooked up with ignored him the following weekend and was all over another guy and he wanted to kill all gays because he didnt like the way they operated? I dunno but the best way to aviod a situation like this is to have better judgement and stick to your gut feeling or only go to places where you can escape if somebody does something like this because people shoot in straight clubs all the time they just don’t go in there prepared to kill everyone. I always stood by the side door at my favorite club. We are all sojourners on this earth we are supposed to be prepared for death at any given moment and be prepared to meet . God and go to a better place.