Angel Colon was saying his goodbyes around 2 a.m. Sunday, June 12, inside Pulse nightclub. A great night of "smiles and laughter" was about to end, but not in the way anyone inside the club could have ever imagined.

Pulse survivor Angel Colon met the police officer who dragged him to safety

Officer Omar Delgado to Colon: "I'm so glad you're alive, man."

Colon was shot several times in the left leg, the hand and the hip

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Fast forward a few days, and Colon was saying hello. This time from inside his room at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

Colon, the 26-year-old from Polk County who was shot several times in his left leg, hand and hip, was saying hi to the Eatonville Police officer who dragged him to safety during the horrific early morning hours as bullets flew inside Pulse in the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history.

Colon, as well as surgeons and nurses, spoke Tuesday from inside Orlando Regional Medical Center. Colon described the night in great detail: "I fell down. I got trampled over," he said. "I tried to get back up, but everyone started running everywhere. I got trampled over and I shattered and broke my bones on my left leg. By this time, I couldn't walk at all. All I could do is just lay down there while everyone was just running on top of me — trying to get to where they had to be."

Colon said he then looked up and saw a police officer, who dragged him across Orange Avenue to a nearby Wendy's.

Colon said Tuesday he wished he could remember the police officer's name.

Well, the police officer remembered Colon.

"My name is Officer Omar Delgado. I'm one of the ones that helped you get out of harm's way, man. I need a big hug from you, man," the Eatonville Police officer said as he walked around the corner and saw Colon for the first time since Sunday. "I'm so glad you're alive, man."

It was a moment Colon said he wasn't sure he would ever experience, especially in the early mornings hours Sunday.

"When I first saw him, I was face down, laying down on the floor," Colon said. "I could only move my arms and my head, so I just saw him and his glasses and I was like, 'Help me, please.'"

Delgado said he heard about Colon from a coworker. He said he hadn't watched any of the coverage after the shooting until the coworker called him to tell him the guy he dragged out of the club was on TV.

Surrounded by Colon's family inside the hospital room, Delgado said it was a moment that will stay with him forever.

"It was amazing," Delgado said. "It was a feeling you just can't describe, can't put into words knowing that you helped save someone. People try to help save people all the time, but in that situation, it was unreal."