ORLANDO, FLA. — Mina Justice was fast asleep when she received her son’s chilling text messages. They reveal his final moments before being killed by the gunman who opened fire at a homosexual nightclub in Orlando, which resulted in the deaths of 49 and injury to 50 others.

Here is the conversation Mina had over text message with her 30-year-old son Eddie Justice before he was shot dead:

“Mommy I love you,” the first message said. It was 2:06 a.m.

“In club they shooting.”

Mina Justice tried calling her 30-year-old son. No answer.

Alarmed and half awake, she tapped out a response.

“U ok”

At 2:07 a.m., he wrote: “Trapp in bathroom.”

Justice asked what club, and he responded: “Pulse. Downtown. Call police.”

Then at 2:08: “I’m gonna die.”

Now wide awake, Justice dialed 911.

She sent a flurry of texts over the next several minutes.

“I’m calling them now.

U still in there

Answer our damn phone

Call them

Call me.”

The 911 dispatcher wanted her to stay on the line. She wondered what kind of danger her son was in. He was normally a homebody who liked to eat and work out. He liked to make everyone laugh. He worked as accountant and lived in a condo in downtown Orlando.

“Lives in a sky house, like the Jeffersons,” she would say. “He lives rich.”

She knew he was gay and at a club — and all the complications that might entail. Fear surged through her as she waited for his next message.

At 2:39 a.m., he responded:

“Call them mommy

Now.”

He wrote that he was in the bathroom.

“He’s coming

I’m gonna die.”

Justice asked her son if anyone was hurt and which bathroom he was in.

“Lots. Yes,” he responded at 2:42 a.m.

When he didn’t text back, she sent several more messages. Was he with police?

“Text me please,” she wrote.

“No,” he wrote four minutes later. “Still here in bathroom. He has us. They need to come get us.”

At 2:49 a.m., she told him the police were there and to let her know when he saw them.

“Hurry,” he wrote. “He’s in the bathroom with us.”

She asked, “Is the man in the bathroom wit u?”

At 2:50 a.m.: “He’s a terror.”

Then, a final text from her son a minute later: “Yes.”

More than 15 hours after that text, Justice had not heard from her son. She and a dozen family and friends were at a hotel which became a staging area for relatives awaiting news.

“His name has not come up yet and that’s scary. It’s just …” she paused and patted hear heart. “It’s just, I got this feeling. I got a bad feeling.”

She later found out that Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30, was among the 49 people killed in the shooting.

The text conversation was the last he had with his mother.

The city of Orlando is keeping a running list of victims on their website.

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