Orlando shooting: 'I'm next. I'm dead!' Orlando shooting survivor Angel Colon recounts moments

US: Victim of Orlando gay night club shooting, Angel Colon describe the horrific moment the gunman burst into the club and started shooting. He said he was hugging friends goodbye at the end of a festive night when the shooting began. 

He took three bullets in the leg and fell to the floor, as people screamed and tried to escape. He said he was certain he wouldn't make it out of the Pulse nightclub alive when attacker Omar Mateen started shooting at wounded victims lying on the floor helplessly. 

“I wish I could remember his name or his face because to this day I am grateful for him,” said Colon, who was shot three times in the leg, then in the hand and hip. “He looks at me. He makes sure I’m alive, and he grabs my hand, and he says, ‘This is the only way I can take you outside.’ I say, ‘Please carry me because I am in pain right now.’ I couldn’t walk or anything.”

 "All I could do was just lay down there while everyone was just running on top of me trying to get to where they had to be,".

"And all I could hear was the shots going one after another, and people screaming, people yelling for help,".

Colon spoke about the heroism of the medical staff that struggled to cope with with the sudden flood of gunshot victims.

"We were just having a great time. We were all just there having a drink. It was shortly after two o'clock. We were saying our good-byes. I'm hugging everyone. It was a great night," Colon recounted. "No drama, just smiles, just laughter."

Just about the time for the to close, the shooting started and Colon was shot in the leg.

"I was shot about three times in my leg, so I had fallen down. I tried to get back up, but everyone started running anywhere. I got trampled over, and I shattered and broke my bones on my left leg. So by this time I couldn't walk at all," he said.

He thought he had escaped death, when the shooter went to another part of the club.

"He goes into the other room, and I can just hear more shots going on. I thought I was a little safe at this time because, you know, it's giving everyone time to tackle him down or get him down," he said.

"Unfortunately, I hear him come back, and he's shooting everyone that's already dead on the floor. Making sure they're dead. I can hear the (gunshots) closer, and I look over and he shoots the girl next to me. And I'm just there laying down. I'm thinking, 'I'm next. I'm dead.'"

The gunman shoots the already wounded Colon twice more, but somehow, the survivor said, "by the glory of God, he shoots towards my head but it hits my hand.

"Then he shoots me again and it hits the side of my hip," he recalled.

Colon pretended to be dead not to attract the gunman's attention, despite several bullets lodged in his body.

"I had no reaction. I was just prepared to just stay there laying down so he won't know that I'm alive," he said. "And he's just doing this for another five, ten minutes. He's just shooting all over the place."

The shooting continued, ntil police who gained entrance into the building and exchanged gun fire with the attacker and rescued the survivors. Colon said a police officer dragged him to safety.

"The floor is just covered in glass. So he's dragging me out while I'm just getting cut - my behind, my back, my legs. I don't feel pain, but I just feel all this blood on me from myself, from my other people."