Gay bar in puerto rico attack

An official says 23 of the 49 victims killed in the massacre at a gay Florida nightclub shooting are Puerto Ricans.

LGBT Puerto Ricans mourn Pulse nightclub massacre victims

Puerto Rico's justice secretary, Cesar Miranda, hasn't specified how many were born in the U. He issued a statement decrying "all the social problems that led to this massacre: intolerance about gender preferencesdiscrimination against Latin Americans in the United States and broad access to weapons in that country. On Monday, Mexico's president said three people killed were citizens of his country.

The tragedy hit the gay and Hispanic communities especially hard. Sunday was Latino Night at the Pulse nightclub. One of the survivors of the nightclub shooting says she went from having the time of her life with her friends to the worst night of her life in a matter of minutes. Twenty-year-old Patience Carter talked about the night from Florida Hospital Orlando on Tuesday where she is recovering from a gunshot wound.

Carter says she was with a group of friends at the Pulse nightclub when she heard the gunshots on early Sunday. Carter says one of her friends was killed and another was also shot and has more severe injuries. She described hearing the gunman's calls to in which he said he was shooting because he wanted America to stop bombing his country.

She says he spoke in Arabic and pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State. She also described a person that she didn't know shielding her from rico hit as the hostage situation came to a close and the gunman was killed by police. Before speaking, Carter read a poem that ended with puerto words: "The guilt of being alive is heavy.

A survivor who hid in the handicapped stall as a gunman attacked a gay Florida nightclub says he had to drag himself out to safety and is just grateful to be alive. From a bed Tuesday at the hospital that treated him, Angel Santiago Jr. He says he got to club Pulse in Orlando about a.

About 2 a. They made their way to the bathroom area and hid in the large stall. Santiago says about 15 people total were in there. He was shot in the left foot and right knee. The group tried to be quiet. He eventually dragged himself, unable to walk, out of the bathroom and toward police. He used his cellphone light to indicate his presence to officers, who soon grabbed him and got him outside.

He says he could see the bullet hole on one of his friends, who also gay recovering. He says he never saw the shooter or heard him speak. President Barack Obama attacks anti-Muslim rhetoric from presumptive Republican bar nominee Donald Trump is "not the America we want. Obama is arguing that treating Muslim-Americans differently won't make the U.

He says it will make the country less safe by fueling the notion among followers of the Islamic State group that the West hates Muslims.