Christopher Hansen, the Pulse survivor recognized as the guy in the fedora, was the victim of a carjacking in Little Rock, Ark.
Hansen was visiting his family in Little Rock to celebrate his parent’s 25th wedding anniversary and to retrieve some personal items from a storage unit he was bringing back with him to Florida.
According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel, while visiting Little Rock, Hansen decided to meet up with a man he had been chatting with on the dating app Jack’d. Hansen picked him up and they went for a smoke at a nearby lake. As the two of them walked along a trail, Hansen says he came up to a tarp on the ground and panicked thinking this guy meant to make him the victim of some horrible crime. Hansen started walking back to his rental car and that is when he said he was pushed to the ground and had his keys stolen from him when they fell out of his pocket. The perpetrator left Hansen stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Hansen, not knowing the attacker’s real name or Jack’d screenname, was unable to provide the police with enough information to find the man. The car, with Hansen’s wallet missing, was found in a Walgreens parking lot near the apartments where Hansen picked up the guy. The man has not been found. A GoFundMe page was set up for Hansen, where he was asking for $1000 to assist him in renting a car to get back to Florida.
