Deputy responding to Pulse shooting 'witnessed exceptional heroism'

Newly released documents detail rush to help shooting victims

ORLANDO, Fla. – Newly released documents from the released in the Pulse nightclub shooting detail the heroism of the first responders.

The reports detail how deputies rushed in to get the injured to safety and later witnessed a SWAT team officer getting shot in his helmet during the operation to take down gunman Omar Mateen.

One of the officers said in his report, "I witnessed exceptional heroism in the face of indescribable horror. The actions of law enforcement officers within the inner perimeter of Pulse are keeping in the finest traditions of law enforcement."

A reserve deputy among the first responders to the massacre described seeing a pile of bodies piled up outside the gay nightclub when he entered it last month.

 Reserve Deputy Sheriff Robert Knight says in his account that he saw 15 bodies in front of the nightclub Pulse "with horrific wounds" and three more lifeless victims in front of a stage inside.

Knight's account was among a dozen released late Thursday by the Orange County Sheriff's Office. It is only the latest account released by law enforcement in recent days providing new details of the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.

The first audio 911 calls were also released on Thursday in the Pulse investigation.

In one of the calls, a woman tells dispatchers what her brother, who was in the club at the time of the shooting, was seeing.

Forty-nine people were killed and 53 were injured in the June 12 shooting at the nightclub.