One Saturday night back in 2016, a post was made on Orlando's Pulse Nightclub Facebook page at 209 a.m.

It read, everyone get out of Pulse and keep running.

The urgent message gave no context of what was happening, but within the next few hours,

it was learned that the nightclub

had become a scene of one of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the U.S.

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Now, let's get to today's story.

June 12, 2016, was Latin night at Pulse Nightclub, and the place was packed. By the time of last call, around 2 a.m., more than 300 people were still inside enjoying the final tunes of the night. But then the clubgoers heard a loud, repeated sound that was very definitely not Latin music. Just before the sound, a man carrying a semi-automatic rifle and a

9-millimeter semi-automatic pistol had entered the club and opened fire near the entrance.

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