Tag: Pulse

Pulse survivor Chris Brodman, 34, has died, just three months after the mass shooting in Orlando, News 6 reports. The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed his death on Tuesday. Friends had been posting about his death since as early as Sunday. Authorities say they responded to reports of an unconscious man at a private home in the Tampa area at about 1:50 a.m. Sunday morning. The cause and manner of death are still under investigation. They added that his body showed...

Imran Yousuf helped usher dozens of Pulse patrons to safety during the nation's worst mass shooting, and now the American Military Partner Association will honor his heroism. Marine Corps veteran Imran Yousuf is credited with saving more than 70 people during theJune mass shooting at Orlando gay nightclub Pulse. He will recognized for his actions at a San Diego gala in September for the American Military Partner Association. Yousuf was working as a bouncer at the club during the early hours...

A Georgia pastor who generated a firestorm of controversy after he tweeted that “homosexuals got what they deserved” after the deadly massacre at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub, has been arrested on charges of child molestation and aggravated child molestation. Shortly after the Pulse attack, Adkins tweeted, “been through so much with these Jacksonville homosexuals that I don’t see none of them as victims. I see them as getting what they deserve.” Adkins, 56, later walked back his comments, saying he wasn’t referring...

The former president paid a surprise visit to the memorial Wednesday afternoon.  Former president Bill Clinton visited the Pulse memorial in Orlando Wednesday. Clinton's appearance was not made public until Thursday, when the former president's press secretary, Angel Urena, confirmed his visit. https://twitter.com/angelurena/status/768517678273290240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The 42nd president was at the memorial for around ten minutes, where he spoke with several people at the memorial, reported the Orlando Sentinel. "I was just driving by to be honest," John McClain of Orlando told the paper. "I saw...

Orlando Health and Florida Hospital will not bill survivors of the Pulse nightclub massacre for out-of-pocket medical expenses, officials announced Wednesday. Instead, the hospitals will write off an estimated $5.5 million or more in care. "The pulse shooting was a horrendous tragedy for the victims, their families and our entire community," Orlando Health President and CEO David Strong said. "During this very trying time, many organizations, individuals and charities have reached out to Orlando Health to show their support. This is...

It has been two months since a lone gunman opened fire on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, killing 49 and injuring 53 others. For Christine Leinonen, whose only son was killed that night, her life will never be the same. Leinonen sat on her couch with a stack of old photographs of her son on her lap when ABC news recently visited her. “He was one of the good ones,” she said. “You would have loved him as your neighbor, as your son, as...

While Trump tried everything in his power to roll out a newly empathic and huggable persona at the Detroit Electronic Club on Monday, anyone with even the vaguest semblance of human consciousness could easily see through the ruse. The abrupt about-face is doubly transparent when you consider the Republican presidential nominee and crepuscular gasbag plans to attend a fervently antigay event being held this week in Orlando — exactly two months after the Pulse nightclub shootings that killed 49 people and left...