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Newly-released video from bodycams worn by officers responding to a mass shooting at a Florida gay nightclub shows shattered glass inside the club, the sounds of automatic gunfire and an officer shouting, 'Come out with your hands up or you will die!'
The videos were released Wednesday to ABC News, the Orlando Sentinel, and the newspaper's news partner, Fox 35.
The 15 hours of video show Pulse patrons running from the club and officers shouting, 'Just go!' as they direct them across the street.
Forty-nine patrons were killed during last June's massacre and dozens more were injured in the worst mass shooting in modern US history.
Gunman Omar Mateen was killed in a shootout with officers after a three-hour standoff.
He had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Among the 15 hours of videos obtained through a public records request by the Orlando Sentinel is a scene of officers firing toward gunman Omar Mateen and one officer yelling: 'Come out with your hands up or you will die.'
Portions of the videos were posted on the newspaper's website. Footage of those who died was not shown.
As police neared the cornered gunman, one officer said a prayer to himself: 'Lord Jesus, watch over me,' the paper reported.