Surviving Friend of Teen Murdered in Orlando Massacre Sobs With Guilt as She Recounts How Shooter Asked If There Were Any Black People in The Bathroom Stall Where They Were Hiding - Because He Would Spare Them For Having 'Suffered Enough'

Patience Carter, 20, was partying with friends Tiara Parker and Akyra Murray, 18, at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida Saturday night. Carter and Parker survived the shooting but their friend Murray did not. On Tuesday, Parker spoke about the shooting as she continues to recover at the hospital. Parker says that she and Murray escaped the club early on in the shooting but returned to find Parker. 

They were then shot and held hostage by the gunman for three hours. During the standoff, Parker says the shooter, Omar Mateen, asked if there were any black people in the stall where she and her friends were hiding. 'I don't have a problem with black people,' Mateen reportedly said. 'This is about my country. You guys suffered enough'.

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 was partying with her friends Akyra Murray, 18, and Tiara Parker, at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida Saturday night when gunman Omar Mateen opened fire and killed 49 revelers in the gay club - including Murray, the youngest victim.

During a press conference on Tuesday at Florida Hospital Orlando, Carter recalled her memories of the shooting, read a poem about her survivor's guilt and revealed previously unreported details about how the gunman - including the fact that he promised not to shoot any black people because they had 'suffered enough'. 

Orlando massacre survivors on horror of that night at Pulse

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Philadelphia college student Patience Carter, 20, sobs on Tuesday as she describes her survivor's guilt at a press conference about the Orlando shooting 

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Carter suffered gun shot wounds to both legs. She was at the nightclub Saturday night with her friends Tiara Parker and Akyra Murray, who are cousins. Parker was injured; Murray didn't make it out alive

Carter, a college student in Philadelphia, says she was on vacation with Murray and Parker's family (Murray and Parker are cousins), and that Murray's parents dropped them off at the club that night for a girl's night out.

It was around 2am when the first gunshots were heard. At first, Parker says she thought the noise was some over-the-top way the club owners were trying to get everyone to leave. 

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