Brother of Orlando shooting victim apologizes for thinking 'dying I love u' text was a joke

Santos Rodriguez sobbed when he first saw his older brother Jeff semi-conscious and hooked up to machines in an Orlando hospital. 

Jeff, 37, had taken multiple gunshots in Pulse nightclub and nearly bled to death on the bathroom floor waiting for police to rescue him.

         Early on in the siege, he'd texted his two younger brothers, Santos and Jai.

        "I been shot at club..dying I love u." One minute later, at 2:26 a.m., he wrote: 

        "Dead bodies on top of me …tell everyone..love them."

         "We are always joking around," he told CBC News in an interview about those nightmarish early-morning hours on June 12."I just texted him back LMAO [laughing hysterically]; you'd be taking pictures and posting it," he told his brother.