*Here’s another heartbreaking story from the Orlando massacre. Mina Justice described her 30-year-old son, Eddie Justice, this way to theAP. She said he “lives in a sky house, like the Jeffersons … He lives rich.”
He was also described as an accountant and homebody who liked to work out and make people laugh. After his killing in the Orlando nightclub shooting that killed 49 and wounded 53, Mina Justice shared the heartbreaking final texts they exchanged as he sought shelter in a women’s bathroom in the Pulse nightclub.
Here are the texts:
2:06 a.m.
Eddie: “Mommy I love you. … In club they shooting.”
Mina Justice had been fast asleep. She tried calling and her son didn’t answer.
Mina: “U ok”
2:07 a.m.
Eddie: “Trapp in bathroom.”
She asked him what club.
Eddie: “Pulse. Downtown. Call police.”
2:08 a.m.
Eddie: “I’m gonna die.”
Mina Justice dialed 911, then sent several texts over the next few minutes.
Mina: “I’m calling them now.”
Mina: “U still in there.”
Mina: “Answer our damn phone.”
Mina: “Call them.”
Mina: “Call me.”
She stayed on with 911. Her son did not respond for half an hour. Then:
2:39 a.m.
Eddie: “Call them mommy.”
Eddie: “Now.”
He explained he was in the bathroom.
Eddie: “He’s coming.”
Eddie: “I’m gonna die.”
2:42 a.m.
She asked if anyone was hurt and which bathroom he was in.
Eddie: “Lots. Yes”
She sent several more texts, and asked if he was with police.
Mina: “Text me please”
2:46 a.m.
Eddie: “No. … Still here in bathroom. He has us. They need to come get us.”
2:49 a.m.
She told him police had arrived and to tell her when he saw them.
Eddie: “Hurry. … He’s in the bathroom with us.”
Mina: “Is the man in the bathroom wit u?”
2:50 a.m.:
Eddie: “He’s a terror.”
2:51 a.m.
Eddie: “Yes.”
That was it … his final text.
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