'His partner followed his instructions, and approximately 25 minutes to 30 minutes later, (Eddie sent) another text saying that he was hiding, but he was safe. Eddie texted his partner to not come back into the club, and to instead go straight to a house for safety. The couple had been together for three years.įerguson says when shots rang out, Eddie was inside of the nightclub but Luis was outside.
In the video, Eddie is standing next to his partner, Luis. Ferguson owns the travel agency that Eddie worked for, and says Eddie texted him a final Snapchat video 23 minutes before the shooting started. 'I completely believe that Eddie saved his partner's life by not allowing him to come back into the Pulse Nightclub,' said Al Ferguson.ĪBC7 News Anchor Natasha Zouves spoke with Ferguson on the phone from Sarasota, Florida. RELATED: These are the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando
We now know more about the moments before he died and his final act: making sure his partner was out of harm's way. (KGO) - Eddie Sotomayor was one of the first victims identified after the Orlando shooting.
