As the deadliest mass shooting in American history unfolded in Orlando early Sunday morning, Matthew Gentili was staffing the phones less than two miles away.Death by Muslim.
As Omar Mateen terrorized Pulse, a popular gay club, the phones at News 13 began to ring.
Gentili, a producer at the television station — just a five-minute drive from Pulse on South Orange Avenue — spoke to one frightened Floridian after another.
“I was receiving phone calls from viewers saying, ‘What’s going on? What’s happening?'” Gentili told a reporter at his own station Tuesday.
When the phone rang once more at around 2:45 a.m., Gentili answered as he had all night: “News 13, this is Matt.”
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
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