Pulse survivor: ‘I've never heard so many gunshots in my life'

ORLANDO, Fla. — Eyewitness News talked to more victims who escaped the Pulse nightclub shooting on Sunday morning.

Miguel Leiva, a 29-year-old father from Miami, was one of the hostages held in the bathroom at Pulse by gunman Omar Mateen.

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Leiva told Channel 9’s Blaine Tolison he’s a welder who repairs armored vehicles for the military and a military subcontractor, but what he saw at Pulse was worse than any war-torn vehicle at his shop.

Leiva said he wasn’t aware of the extent of his injuries until Sunday night and into Monday.

As a young cancer survivor, he told Eyewitness News he avoids hospitals, but after being shot twice he found himself in the hospital again.

"Where I was at, there was 30 of us and only five of us walked out. Everybody is dead,” Leiva said. “People were kneeling, praying and he killed them. And I was just like, ‘I'm going to die in this club. Like, ‘I can't believe I came to Orlando and I'm going to die in this frigging club.’"

Leiva had been in Orlando for a week before a friend invited him to Pulse. At one point during their evening, they thought about leaving.

"He asked me, he's like, 'You want to leave?' And I was just like, 'Let's just hang out. Let's see what happens or whatever.' Couple hours later this is what happened,” Leiva said.

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Four shots rang out, but the music kept playing. Seconds later, more shots.

"There was nowhere to go. There was no exit. There was no window to break to get out, so I just ran into the bathroom,” Leiva said.

Leiva said Omar Mateen entered and left the bathroom twice, then entered again and opened fire.

While he was hiding in the bathroom, he said all he could think of was his last conversation with his mother: an an argument over why he had not yet returned home to Miami from Orlando.

"It's just like, damn, this really happened. And it's like, my mom, she's always giving me advice. She's my best friend,” Leiva said.

Leiva escaped through one of the holes busted into the building while helping a SWAT team member carry a victim.

"That's when the guy (Mateen) came out. I guess after the last person came out and he started shooting into the, through the opening to the SWAT, and that's when I got shot in my leg,” Leiva said.

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He said he now feels shock and guilt he made it out alive.

"It hit me like, whoa, and then I just keep watching the news and I keep seeing the people's faces and it's like, ‘He was in the bathroom. She was in the bathroom,’” Leiva said.

He still has a few surgeries but is expected to recover.

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