'I'm gonna die, Momma': Orlando clubber, 30, who sent heartbreaking texts to his mother while he was trapped in bathroom during massacre IS confirmed as one of the 50 killed


Eddie Justice was trapped in a nightclub bathroom when he contacted his mother Mina for the last time in a series of messages. The City of Orlando has now confirmed he was one of the 50 partygoers who were shot dead by Islamic extremist Omar Mateen on Sunday morning. Eddie, who worked as an accountant, ran into the women's bathroom to escape Mateen but he and and a group were then cornered. He asked Mina to call police as she arrived outside the Orlando gay nightclub in a desperate attempt to find her son. Eddie then told her 'I'm gonna die' as Mateen discovered where he was hiding and took him and others hostage. 'Mommy I love you. In the club they shooting,' a text from Eddie Justice to his mother read. 'U ok,' she responded before her son wrote back 'trapp (sic) in bathroom.' His mother then asked which club he was in and asked him to call her.

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