People who made it out of Orlando's Pulse nightclub alive are sharing stories of their horrific experiences. Norman Casiano, 25, tells the New York Times that he huddled in a crammed bathroom stall after shooting erupted. He says gunman Omar Mateen laughed after he entered the room and opened fire on people begging for their lives. "All I heard was a laugh," Casiano says. "He laughed like an evil laugh, something that's just going to be imprinted in my head forever." Mateen apparently later barricaded himself in another bathroom, where a survivor named Orlando says he heard him speaking about ISIS in surprisingly calm 911 calls. Orlando says he played dead at the end of the standoff with police, when Mateen began executing hostages. In other coverage of the mass shooting and its aftermath:
- Police officers give harrowing accounts of the end of the standoff and some heroic rescues to the Orlando Sentinel.