Several minutes later at 2:39 am, Eddie replied: “Call them mommy. Over the next several minutes, she sent her son a series of confused messages. Call police.”Īt 2:08 am, he texted her: “I’m gonna die.”īy this time, Mina was already wide awake and started contacting 911. The mother then asked which club Eddie was in to which he replied: “Pulse. “Trapp in bathroom,” Eddie replied at 2:07 am.
Mina attempted to call her son but he didn’t answer her calls so she decided to text him to check if he was ok. More than 50 people were wounded during the incident dubbed as the worst mass shooting in modern US history.Īccording to Mina, she was sound asleep when she received a text message from her son.Īt around 2:06 am, Mina received the first message: “Mommy I love you.” Her 30-year-old son was among the 50 revellers fatally shot by Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old Muslim American of Afghan descent, inside a well-known gay hangout, Pulse Night Club. Mina Justice revealed her disturbing exchange of text messages with son Eddie, one of the victims killed in the recent mass shooting in a gay bar in Orlando, Florida this weekend.īefore he was fatally shot, Eddie Justice sent a series of heartbreaking text messages to his mom.
