Heartbreaking 911 log reveals how Orlando’s massacres youngest victim, 18, begged for help as she went blind while bleeding to death
18-year-old Akyra Murray also called her mother, who raced from a neighbouring town to try and save her daughter
THE youngest victim of the Orlando massacre told emergency operators that she didn't want to die as she lay bleeding in the club’s bathroom, according to new call logs.
Akyra Murray, 18, was killed by gunman Omar Mateen when she ran back inside Pulse nightclub to find her friend.
The pair got trapped inside the bathroom, where Mateen attacked them.
Her heartbreaking conversations with the emergency services as she bled to death over the course of three hours.
Murray called 911 at around 2.20am on June 12 and told operators that she was losing her eyesight.
Her operator wrote at 2.21am: “Victim (says) her body is going numb.”
Another emergency worker wrote at 2.22am: “Another subject called in to advise she was injured, sounded out of breath. Advised she was possibly in the bathroom.”
At 2.36am, her responder logged: “My [victim] is 18 years of age. ... she is losing eyesight and feeling in her body.”
“Compl(ainant) adv(ises) losing feeling in her leg... Just keeps saying I don't want to die today.”
Murray was celebrating graduation from high school and was set to play basketball for Mercyhurst University in Pennsylvania.
Murray’s mother Natalie also received a call from her daughter as she lay bleeding in the bathroom of Pulse nightclub.
She said: “She was saying she was shot and she was screaming, saying she was losing a lot of blood,' her mother said.
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“I just tried to tell her to remain calm and apply pressure to the wound,' Mrs Murray said. 'All I could hear was my baby screaming.”
The teen’s parents tried to race to Orlando from neighbouring town Kimmissee, but by the time that they got there it was too late.
The pair agreed to hang up so that Murray’s mother could call the police.
That was the last time that the devastated mother would hear her daughter’s voice.
Mateen burst into the gay nightclub at around 2.00am with two guns and started taking hostages.
The gunman killed 49 partygoers over the three hour standoff.
An operator at 2.17am said that police would “need shields” when storming the nightclub.
But this order was changed a minute later as a deputy said that the gunfire from the nightclub “sounds like an AK' or 'a long rifle.”
It was then logged that a “shield will not stop rifle fire.”
The emergency call logs also show that police were sent to the nightclub at 2.51am.
Police were warned that Mateen had several bombs.
A 4.29am dispatch said: “A text advises the suspect is going to attach four vests to four people in different directionals in the club.”
During the standoff, the sherriff pleads for support from his deputies.
He said: “Pleading for deputies to enter back entrance to club on NW corner. He is in the room on the west side of the building in a closet in the back.”
At 5.31am, sheriff’s dispatchers logged: “confirmed suspect is down.”
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