The 18-year-old was the youngest person killed in the
Orlando shooting. She had just graduated from West Catholic
Preparatory High School in Philadelphia, third in her class and was at
the nightclub to
celebrate with her cousin and a friend.
She
had initially escaped the club when the gunman Omar Mateen, opened fire
but returned into the fray when she realized her friends
were still inside. She was later shot.
had initially escaped the club when the gunman Omar Mateen, opened fire
but returned into the fray when she realized her friends
were still inside. She was later shot.
In a set of of call logs released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department , one dispatcher describes Murray’s call made the call at :
“Compl[ainant] adv[ises] losing feeling in her leg … Just keeps saying
‘I don’ want to die today.'” Another entry noted, “My [victim] is 18
years of age…She is losing eyesight and feeling in her body.”
‘I don’ want to die today.'” Another entry noted, “My [victim] is 18
years of age…She is losing eyesight and feeling in her body.”
The terrified young woman also texted and called her mom, telling her
that she had been shot. “She was saying she was shot and she was
screaming, saying she was losing a lot of blood,” her mother, Natalie Murray, told DailyMail. “I tried to tell her to remain calm and apply pressure to the wound,” she added. “All I could hear was my baby screaming.”
that she had been shot. “She was saying she was shot and she was
screaming, saying she was losing a lot of blood,” her mother, Natalie Murray, told DailyMail. “I tried to tell her to remain calm and apply pressure to the wound,” she added. “All I could hear was my baby screaming.”
Natalie Murray hung up with her dying daughter so that she could call
the police not knowing it was the last time she would speak with her.
“If I’d have known that that was the last time I was going to talk to
her, I would have never got off the phone,” Murray said in a recent interview with NPR.
the police not knowing it was the last time she would speak with her.
“If I’d have known that that was the last time I was going to talk to
her, I would have never got off the phone,” Murray said in a recent interview with NPR.
“We
sat out there from 2:32 am. until they let us in the hospital at 12
noon, 1 o’clock…” Natalie Murray said. “Knowing nothing, knowing
nothing – whether she was dead, alive, safe,
gone, still in the club. She sat in that club until 6 a.m. until they
blew a hole in the wall and killed the assailant and got the kids out,
but my daughter was already gone. She’d bled to death. She had took a
bullet to her main artery in her arm. I’m thinking, when she said she
was hit in her arm, oh God, it’s just her arm; she can survive this; she
can survive this, never, ever for once thinking that it was her main
artery and that it would take her out.”
sat out there from 2:32 am. until they let us in the hospital at 12
noon, 1 o’clock…” Natalie Murray said. “Knowing nothing, knowing
nothing – whether she was dead, alive, safe,
gone, still in the club. She sat in that club until 6 a.m. until they
blew a hole in the wall and killed the assailant and got the kids out,
but my daughter was already gone. She’d bled to death. She had took a
bullet to her main artery in her arm. I’m thinking, when she said she
was hit in her arm, oh God, it’s just her arm; she can survive this; she
can survive this, never, ever for once thinking that it was her main
artery and that it would take her out.”
Source: Daily Mail