In the blink of an eye, 11 children lost their mother. Monday in Orlando they mourned.
In the blink of an eye, 11 children were left without a mother.
They’d considered the reality of losing the 49-year-old Brenda Lee Marquez McCool before. All 11 had sat by fearfully while she battled cancer — not once but twice.
“The doctor gave her a year to live,” her ex-husband Robert Pressley said.
But as Noreen Vaquer, a friend from her Brooklyn childhood, told the Orlando Sentinel, “she was a fighter.” So, twice, her 11 children breathed a collective sigh of relief — their mom was going to be fine. She was going to have fun with them, to share life with them, to take care of them above all.
She did all three on June 12 while dancing at the Pulse nightclub with her 21-year-old son Isaiah Henderson.
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After opening fire in the crowded club, Omar Mateen pointed his weapon at the mother and son. But McCool was not going to let her son come to harm. She shielded her son with her body as Mateen resumed fire..
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HER NAME IS Brenda Lee Marquez McCool!
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Mommy.
I have no more words.
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Your son survived -- rest easy knowing that you likely saved his life.
