By Larry Spilman
Jun 11, 2021
It was five years ago Saturday that gunfire erupted at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. Family and friends who lost loved ones are talking about the lingering pain. Christine Leinonen s son Christopher was among the 49 people who died I ll go to my death with my grief over my son losing his life, Leinonen said. As a mother, I was always anticipating his future. Dr. Chadwick Smith had no idea he d face the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman in U.S. history up to that time when he went to work at Orlando Health Regional Medical Center. Then Pulse victims began streaming into ORMC s trauma center.