Early in the morning on June 12, 2016, Mina Justice was sleeping when her phone buzzed with a text from her son Eddie. The 30-year-old was inside Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, where someone had started shooting at people who were out enjoying their Saturday night. The club was hosting its weekly Latin Night event. For the next 45 minutes, Eddie and his mother sent messages back and forth as the situation got worse.
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice worked as an accountant and lived in an apartment in downtown Orlando. His mother said he usually stayed home most nights and liked to exercise and make his friends laugh. That night, he decided to go to Pulse, which was a well-known LGBTQ nightclub in the area. A man named Omar Mateen, who was 29 years old, walked into the building just after 2:00 a.m. with a rifle and a handgun and started firing at people near the front door.
