– ‘Shooting everyone’ –
A short time before the club was due to close, the shooting started. Colon was hit in the leg.
“I was shot about three times in my leg, so I had fallen down. I tried to get back up, but everyone started running anywhere. I got trampled over, and I shattered and broke my bones on my left leg. So by this time I couldn’t walk at all,” he said.
He briefly thought he had escaped death, when the shooter turned his weapons on victims in another part of the club.
“He goes into the other room, and I can just hear more shotguns going on. I thought I was a little safe at this time because, you know, it’s giving everyone time to tackle him down or get him down,” he said.
“Unfortunately, I hear him come back, and he’s shooting everyone that’s already dead on the floor. Making sure they’re dead,” Colon said.
“I can hear the (gunshots) closer, and I look over and he shoots the girl next to me. And I’m just there laying down. I’m thinking, ‘I’m next. I’m dead’.”
The gunman shoots the already wounded Colon twice more, but somehow, the survivor said, “by the glory of God, he shoots towards my head but it hits my hand.
“Then he shoots me again and it hits the side of my hip,” he recalled.
Colon was careful not to give away the fact that, despite having a half-dozen bullets lodged in his body, he was not dead.
“I had no reaction. I was just prepared to just stay there laying down so he won’t know that I’m alive,” he said.
“And he’s just doing this for another five, ten minutes. He’s just shooting all over the place.”
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