Colon was wearing shorts at the time, he said, and received cuts up and down his body. The officer then grabbed him and dragged him across the broken glass. "Let's go," Colon said he told the officer. "The only way I can get you out of here is if I just grab your hands and I run," the officer said, according to Colon.Ĭolon asked to be carried and the officer told him that it wasn't possible, and that they would be forced to run. Speaking from his hospital bed, Colon told ABC News about an officer who he says helped him escape while the killer was engaged in a gun battle with police. "I shattered and broke my bones on my left leg."
"I tried to get back up, but everyone started running everywhere, and I got trampled over," Colon said. He was shot three times in the leg and was trampled as he lay on the floor, he said. "Out of nowhere, we hear a big shot, and then we stop what we're doing, and it keeps going," Colon told reporters Tuesday at the Orlando Regional Medical Center. Angel Colon, a survivor of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting, listens during a press conference with Orlando Health trauma staff at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Jin Orlando, Florida.