Emergency call log details horror of Orlando nightclub shooting
[By Colleen Jenkins]
June 29, 2016
Jose Louis Morales sits and prays under his brother Edward Sotomayor Jr.'s cross that is part of a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse night club shootings in Orlando
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Jose Louis Morales sits and prays under his brother Edward Sotomayor Jr.'s cross, that is part of a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Pulse night club shootings in Orlando, Florida, U.S., June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

By Colleen Jenkins

(Reuters) - After a gunman opened fire at a gay nightclub in Florida this month, police dispatchers fielded calls from people inside who screamed of being shot, begged for help and spoke in hushed voices of the bloody scene around them.

The 911 operators' notes, made public on Tuesday, are part of an Orlando Police Department incident narrative that began at 2:02 a.m. on June 12 with two words: "Shots fired."

Over the next three hours, operators recorded hearing people screaming and multiple shots fired as Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

There were also periods of eerie silence.

"My caller is no longer responding, just an open line with moaning," an operator wrote at 2:09 a.m.