49 Pulses

Written by Charlie Minn

Narrated by Pete Cross

On June 12, 2016, a gunman walked into a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Florida and shot 102 people, murdering 49 of them. At 2:00 AM, the Pulse nightclub was winding down its weekly Latino night. The building was dark, crowded, and loud. Patrons were making plans to leave when they were ambushed by a gunman, who began firing in every direction. Customers tried to escape, but the killer followed them. For the next three hours, the gunman terrorized victims while playing a cat and mouse game with the police. Join acclaimed filmmaker Charlie Minn as he tries to answer several questions that remain unanswered about this tragedy, including why the perpetrator chose Pulse nightclub and why it took over three hours for police to stop the shooter. Through his interviews with the survivors, police, family members, and city officials, Minn pieces together how one of the largest mass shootings in American history took place. Contains mature themes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Mar 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781666584165

Charlie Minn

Charlie Minn is a documentary filmmaker who splits his time between El Paso, Texas and New York City. He has sold films to Lions Gate and Investigation Discovery and once worked for the TV series America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988). From his films about the violence in Juarez, Mexico, to the arrest of drug kingpin Joaquin Loera Guzman (aka Chapo Guzman) and other unsolved crimes, Charlie's daring movies represent innocent people who have been murdered.