ORLANDO, Fla. _ Orlando Police Officer Richard Fink could see a man lying on the floor of the Pulse nightclub, reaching out for help, unable to stand.
"I grabbed both of his wrists, and he grabbed mine," Fink wrote in a report, noting that the victim had been shot at least once, in his right leg. "I dragged him outside of the club through the patio, and away from the building."
Then Fink went back in. Other people needed help.
Fink's report was part of a 71-page document made public on Monday.
It's the latest in the city's ongoing release of public records related to the June 12 Pulse nightclub shooting, in which 49 people were killed and more than 50 injured.
Some of the reports in the city's latest release are heavily redacted. The accounts were filed by officers on June 27.
In the document, Orlando police officers describe the harrowing things they saw and heard: Patrons running out of the club, covered in blood. People who were injured, bleeding on the club's floor or in a parking lot outside. People who were killed.
Officer Felix Monroig Santiago responded at 2:05 a.m., just three minutes after the first reports of a gunman, and could see the bodies inside the club.
He went into the club through the patio on its east side.
"While inside, I observed multiple casualties on the ground near the bar area and could still hear shots being fired," he wrote in his report. "Once it was discovered (that) the suspect was barricaded in the restroom, I remained inside the club until SWAT officers arrived. I then remained on scene providing additional assistance."
Officers Michael Ragsdale and Joseph Imburgio found a closed door on the north side of the building, Ragsdale wrote.
"I tried to open the door but I felt something pulling back on it, holding it closed," Ragsdale wrote. "I announced that I was the Orlando Police Department and the door open(ed) freely. Once the door opened victims started running out."
Ragsdale did not know where the shooter was, and in the chaos, some of the patrons tried to run back inside, he wrote. He kept his gun drawn and pushed people out the door to safety.
Ragsdale went into the club and found a bathroom, which he cleared. The shooter was not there, he wrote.
He went back outside and met with another officer, Kyle Medvetz, who led him through an entrance on the south side of the club.
Together, they walked back inside.
"I remember (feeling) hands grab my ankles as I walked by the victims as they were asking for help," Ragsdale wrote.
Ragsdale and Medvetz stayed inside the club, clearing corners and keeping watch.
About a half-hour later, they saw a man crawling out of a hallway, he wrote.
Officers yelled at the man to keep crawling toward them until Ragsdale and Medvetz could grab him and take him out of the club.
Officer Jeffrey Rine gave his department-issued rifle to another officer, who did not have one, and went into the club to try and rescue the injured.
"By 0235hrs all of the surviving injured that were in the bar and dance floor area were removed," he wrote.
Officer Kelvin Vidro found a man who made it out of the club with a gunshot wound to his stomach but collapsed in the parking lot of a nearby auto shop, he wrote. Vidro said he helped the man get to the Orlando Fire Department's Station 5, the closest station to the club.
"I later entered the building and observed multiple victims on the ground," he wrote, adding that he helped with getting the injured to the triage area set up outside a bagel shop.
Officer Russell Sayer, who said he ran to the club's front doors, wrote that many of the people he saw were "blood soaked." As he tried to help them get to safety, blood "covered my pants, arms, and boots."
Certain public records requests, including for recordings of 911 calls, police radio transmissions and conversations between the shooter and law enforcement, have been denied. Authorities cited disagreements about whether the records fall under state or federal jurisdiction. A court will have to decide under which jurisdiction the records fall. The city of Orlando has already released its communications and narratives from the police and fire departments, and emails from officials.
Just after 5 a.m., when police breached a wall, two SWAT officers came to Officer Luke Austin with a man who was rescued from the bathroom with severe injuries.
Austin could see at least four gunshot wounds on the man's legs, hip and shoulder, he wrote.
"Stay with me, keep fighting," Austin recalled saying. "We will get you to safety, stay with us!"
Then Austin said he heard the suspect start shooting at the SWAT officers. The officers fired back.
"I continued to do what I could to grab the victim, lift him along with two other officers and run south while numerous gun shots were still exchanged," Austin wrote.
They took the man to an unmarked law enforcement truck and lifted him onto the bed.
"I remained on my hands and knees looking into the victim's eyes while talking to him to 'stay with me, I am here with you, your (sic) safe now,'" he wrote.
They dropped the man off at the Orlando Fire Department station and headed back to the club to pick up three more injured people.
Austin found a woman with a gunshot wound to her right knee. She was screaming in pain, he wrote.
"I knelt beside her and began holding her hand tightly while touching the right side of her face with my left hand," he wrote. "As I looked at her, I told her to stay strong and keep breathing. I told her that we were getting her an ambulance and taking her there to speed the process up."
The woman nodded and took deep breaths.
It was then that Austin noticed he was covered in blood, he wrote. It coated his arms, from his fingertips to his elbows. The gloves he was wearing were shredded, falling apart from the wrists.
He and another officer dropped the three people off with medics and watched them being taken away in ambulances.
He went back to the club again and asked if there was anything else he could do. There wasn't, he wrote.
Austin went back to his car. He opened the door with a new, clean glove and tried to focus on getting the blood off his hands and arms as best he could with what he had with him _ some hand sanitizer.
