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Mina Justice was sound asleep when she received the first text from her son, Eddie Justice, who was in the gay nightclub when a gunman opened fire and slaughtered 50 and wounded more than 50 others. Here is the conversation she had over text message with her 30-year-old son.
“Mommy I love you,” the first message said. It was 2.06am.
“In club they shooting.”
Mina Justice tried calling her 30-year-old son. No answer.


Alarmed and half awake, she tapped out a response.
“U ok”
At 2.07am, he wrote: “Trapp in bathroom.”
Justice asked what club, and he responded: “Pulse. Downtown. Call police.”
Then at 2.08am: “I’m gonna die.”
Now wide awake, Justice dialled 911.
She sent a flurry of texts over the next several minutes.
“I’m calling them now.
U still in there
Answer our damn phone
Call them
Call me.”

The 911 dispatcher wanted her to stay on the line. She wondered what kind of danger her son was in. He was normally a homebody who liked to eat and work out. He liked to make everyone laugh. He worked as an accountant and lived in a condo in downtown Orlando.
“Lives in a sky house, like the Jeffersons,” she would say. “He lives rich.”
Fear surged through her as she waited for his next message.
At 2.39am, he responded:
“Call them mommy
Now.”
He wrote that he was in the bathroom.
“He’s coming
I’m gonna die.”
Justice asked her son if anyone was hurt and which bathroom he was in.
“Lots. Yes,” he responded at 2.42am.
When he didn’t text back, she sent several more messages. Was he with police?
“Text me please,” she wrote.
“No,” he wrote four minutes later. “Still here in bathroom. He has us. They need to come get us.”
At 2.49am, she told him the police were there and to let her know when he saw them.
“Hurry,” he wrote. “He’s in the bathroom with us.”
She asked: “Is the man in the bathroom wit u?”
At 2.50am: “He’s a terror.”
Then, a final text from her son a minute later: “Yes.”
Long after the killing stopped, Justice still hasn’t heard from her son. She and a dozen family and friends are at a hotel that has become a staging area for relatives awaiting news. Any news.
“His name has not come up yet and that’s scary. It’s just ...” she paused and patted hear heart. “It’s just, I got this feeling. I got a bad feeling.”


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‘Hurry. He’s in the bathroom with us’: Read mother’s tragic texts with son, now missing in Orlando massacre club

Eddie Justice exchanged a series of text messages with his mother, Mina Justice, as a gunman rampaged through Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Mina Justice hasn't heard from her son since receiving his final message in the early hours of Sunday. Photos: Facebook and AP

Mina Justice speaks to a reporter discussing texting with her son Eddie Justice who was in a bathroom at Club Pulse, Sunday June, 12, 2016, in Orlando. He hasn't been found today. A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said.It was the deadliest mass shooting in American history. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)

Mina Justice shows a text she received from her son Eddie Justice at Pulse nightclub during a fatal shooting in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. Justice hasn’t heard from her son since the messages. (Courtesy of Mina Justice via AP)

Messages from inside club depict three hours of horror: ‘Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running’ ... ‘he’s coming. I’m gonna die’ ... ‘losing blood, love u all’

Friends and family members of victims embrace outside the Orlando Police Headquarters amid the investigation into the massacre at the Pulse nightclub. Photo: Reuters

Supported by a friend, a man weeps for victims of the mass shooting just a block from the scene in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. Fifty people died and another 53 were injured when a gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Florida, police said June 12, making it the worst mass shooting in US history. / AFP PHOTO / Gregg NEWTON

TOPSHOT - In this undated photo recived by AFP on June 12, 2016, shows Omar Mateen, 29, a US citizen of Afghani descent from Port St. Lucie, Florida, from his MYSPACE.COM page, who has been named as the gunman in the mass shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early Sunday when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. / AFP PHOTO / myspace.com / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / MYSPACE.COM" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

An aerial view of the mass shooting scene at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday, June 12, 2016. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

ORLANDO, FL - JUNE 12: FBI agents investigate near the damaged rear wall of the Pulse Nightclub where Omar Mateen allegedly killed at least 50 people on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The mass shooting killed at least 50 people and injuring 53 others in what is the deadliest mass shooting in the country's history. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

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Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, and multiple people have been wounded, police said Sunday. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

ORLANDO, FL - JUNE 12: FBI agents investigate near the damaged rear wall of the Pulse Nightclub where Omar Mateen allegedly killed at least 50 people on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The mass shooting killed at least 50 people and injuring 53 others in what is the deadliest mass shooting in the countryÕs history. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Friends and family react after being notified if their loved ones were admitted as wounded to the Orlando Regional Medical Center on Sunday A list was posted at the nearby Hampton Inn & Suites. MUST CREDIT: Photos by Amanda Voisard for The Washington Post.

Friends and family grieve after a list of hospitalized victims was released, implying the death of those who weren't on the list and hadn't been heard from, outside a Hampton Inn & Suites hotel near the Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. A gunman opened fire inside a crowded nightclub early Sunday, before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. (Loren Elliott/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

epaselect epa05358703 A handout photograph made available by Univision Florida Central showing a view of the general scene following a shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, USA, 12 June 2016. Orlando Police state there are multiple injuries with reports stating that the attacker is still inside the club and has taken hostages. EPA/UNIVISION FLORIDA CENTRAL / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

Mourners pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting during a memorial service in San Diego, California on Sunday. Photo: AFP

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Mina Justice was sound asleep when she received the first text from her son, Eddie Justice, who was in the nightclub when a gunman opened fire and slaughtered 50 and wounded more than 50 others. We reveal their heartbreaking conversation.
