Orlando Survivor Recounts Ordeal, Delivers Poem: 'The Guilt of Being Alive is Heavy'

Hundreds of people gathered at a church in Orlando, Florida, Tuesday night to mourn the 49 victims of Sunday’s attack on an LGBT nightclub, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. More information has begun to emerge about the shooting at the Pulse nightclub as survivors of the attack tell their stories. Patience Carter was at the club with a friend, Tiara Parker, and the friend’s cousin, 18-year-old Akyra Murray, who perished in the attack. Murray and Carter had initially escaped the club, but went back in to look for Parker. All three were shot, Murray fatally. She says she heard Mateen call 911 to say he was carrying out the massacre because he wanted the United States to stop bombing "his country." Carter delivered a poem about the guilt she felt for surviving.