Five First Responders to the Pulse Massacre. One Diagnosis: PTSD. [propublica.org]

Alicia Doktor 6/14/184:00 AM

This article was produced in partnership with WMFE, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.

On the morning of June 12, 2016, police officer Omar Delgado pulled his cruiser up to his two-story townhome in Sanford, Florida, and sat in silence for 15 minutes, trying to process what he had seen during 3 1/2 hours inside the Pulse nightclub.

He stripped his bloody uniform and gear off, put them in a trash bag, and took a shower. Then, he shut the door to his bedroom, locked it and tried to sleep.

That same morning, firefighter EMT Brian Stilwell walked back to Orlando Fire Department Station 5. Working at the station just 300 feet from Pulse nightclub, Stilwell was one of the first on scene hours earlier.

[For more on this story by Abe Aboraya, go to https://www.propublica.org/art...nders-ptsd-diagnosis]

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