You are with your friends in a nightclub, celebrating the end of 2016 when you hear gunfire. A shooter has broken into the club and is coming towards you. Terrified, you try to run, but feel a sharp pain and you fall. Then, everything goes fuzzy and gets worse and worse. This is what happened to many people on the cold morning of New Year’s day, 2017. On this day, a shooter broke into an Istanbul nightclub and tragically killed many people.
In the early morning hours on January 1st, 2017 a man snuck into the tragic Istanbul nightclub.The shooter gained access to the club by killing a uniformed police officer and innocent civilian. Then, he opened fire on many innocent people in the club. The shooter started killing as well as injuring numerous people in little time. It took an unacceptable amount of time for police to get to the area, so the shooter had the opportunity to flee the scene. In addition, the shooter is suspected to be part of Isis and other terrible terrorist groups. His involvement in terrorist groups are thought to be the reason for his killing spree.The police have tried to find the shooter, yet came up without a definite suspect.
Sadly, the police later found the total death count to be 39. 25 of the deaths were men, and 14 were female. Equally important, they found that 69 people had been injured in the deadly attack. To add on, people working on the case have determined the shooter to be an Uzbek Jihadist, which is a person in the act of the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan. However, they have not released the name of the actual shooter.
In your fuzzy state of mind you hear the sound of sirens approaching. However, the gunfire continues, but slowly dies out. The police come in running, yelling that they can’t find him. The yelling continues and you know that the shooter has gotten away. You have given up hope and everything fades to black...forever. As you can see, many tragic deaths happened on this day, at the hands of a terrible man.