Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer got a call shortly after 2 a.m. The deputy police chief of the Florida city, Robert Anzueto, told him that there was an active shooter at an LGBTQ nightclub called Pulse; multiple casualties were involved and the gunman had taken hostages. It was June 12, 2016.
Dyer’s first response: call his then 26-year-old son, to make sure he wasn’t inside.
“I called him just to check on where he was,” he said during a speech later that year. “I didn’t know if he had ever been to Pulse, but it was a club that was welcoming to everyone, gay, straight or anything else for that matter. He was safely in bed and allowed me to go do everything that I needed to do.”
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