GREENWICH VILLAGE — A New York University student was among those injured in Sunday's mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla.
Patience Carter, 20, is an undergraduate in the the Steinhardt School, according to NYU spokesman John Beckman.
"The prayers of the NYU community are with Patience Carter," Beckman said. "We wish her a speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with her, the others who were wounded or killed, and all their loved ones."
Carter is from Philadelphia and was interning with the local news station Fox 29 for the summer, according to multiple reports and her Facebook profile. She was in Orlando with her friend and her friend's cousin for a vacation, according to multiple reports.
Carter had made it out of the nightclub after the shooting began, but ran back inside to get her friend Akyra Murray's cousin Tiara, who was still inside. She convinced Murray to come with her, she said. Murray was killed; Carter and Tiara were shot but survived.
“We just went from having the time of our lives to the worst night of our lives all within a matter of minutes,” Carter said.
She also wrote a poem about her experience — saying "the guilt of being alive is heavy" — which she read at the press conference.
