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    What One Family Lost In Pulse Nightclub A Year Ago

    Emily Addison remembers the last time she saw Deonka Drayton, who was killed by a gunman during the mass shooting in Orlando. "I feel like I wasn't there for her when she needed me the most."
    by Tanya Ballard Brown Jun 09, 2017 1 minute
    Emily Addison, left, and Deonka Drayton with their son.

    A year ago a gunman opened fire in Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Deonka Drayton was one of the 49 people murdered that night, in what was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

    Drayton was 32 at the time,

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