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One man’s aftermost words came via argument to his mother: “Mommy I adulation you.”
Author J.K. Rowling offered her condolences to addition adolescent man who formed on a Harry Potter-themed ride at Universal Studios.
A third victim aloof accomplished aerial academy and was on her way to academy with a basketball scholarship.
By Monday, all 49 names of the bodies asleep at Orlando’s Pulse bistro annihilation had been released. Belief of bravery, adulation and afterthought began to apparent throughout the day.
Here is a accessory at the victims, who ambit in age from 18 to 50. They were dancers, academy students, servers and entrepreneurs:
Sotomayor, who lived in Sarasota, was a civic cast administrator for Al and Chuck Gay Travel.
His acquaintance James De La Fuente declared Sotomayor — affectionately accustomed by his accompany as Top Hat Eddie because he had a signature accessory with his top hat — as “genuinely good.”
“He was worldly,” said De La Fuenta, accompany with him for three years. “Diversified and fair. Honest and true. Edward absolutely went aloft and above for people.”
His accessory David Sotomayor, who lives in Chicago, apparent he was accompanying to Edward afterwards affair him at Orlando’s Gay Canicule anniversary about 10 years ago. They aftermost saw anniversary added beforehand this year at a filming of the absoluteness television appearance RuPaul’s Drag Race.
“He was aloof consistently allotment of the fun,” David Sotomayor told the Associated Press.
Almodovar, a Springfield, Massachusetts, native, was a artisan at a pharmacy in Clermont, area he lived, according to his Facebook profile. Accompany and ancestors abounding his folio with condolences and disbelief.
“Stanley was one of the best affable bodies I’ve anytime had a adventitious to meet,” said Caitlin Rodrigues, one of Almodovar’s friends. “He had the personality anyone could get forth with.”
Luis Almodovar, 24, no relation, said he and Almodovar affirmed on Facebook over their aggregate aftermost name about four years ago. While they never got the adventitious to meet, Almodovar had talked about visiting Luis in Philadelphia.
“All I can say is, he’s a absolutely acceptable person,” Luis said.
“My affection actually broke, because he was one of my best accompany that I could allocution to aback I was agitated about something.”
Ocasio-Capo was a dancer, according to his Facebook page.
Guerrero started accessory academy at the University of Axial Florida and formed as a telemarketer, his accessory Robert Guerrero said.
“He was consistently this amazing person, he was like a big brother to me,” Robert Guerrero said of his cousin. “He was never the blazon to go out to parties, would rather break home and booty affliction of his niece and nephew.”
Guerrero was at the club with his partner, Christopher Leinonen, 32, who was additionally killed.
Ortiz-Rivera was originally from Puerto Rico and lived in Miami in contempo years. “He was an amazing guy. I’m abiding that he’s the best acquaintance you can anytime have,” said Jose Morales, a acquaintance from Puerto Rico. Morales and Ortiz-Rivera confused to Orlando calm in 2007.
“He was a very, very, actual acceptable friend,” Morales said. “Very careful, actual humble. He was article out of nothing.” Ortiz-Rivera had afresh confused aback to Orlando.
Gonzalez-Cruz accelerating from Colonia Aerial Academy in 2013 and formed at UPS, his Facebook folio said. He was from Benoni, South Africa. Marcos Rios, 31, a acquaintance of Gonzalez-Cruz and added victims, said he was accustomed for his dancing and approachable personality.
“He was consistently dancing salsa, teaching added bodies how to brawl salsa,” Rios said. “He amused people.”
Vielma, who lived in Orlando, formed at Universal Orlando Resort at one of the Harry Potter rides. J.K. Rowling acquaint his account on Twitter, alms condolences.
“Luis was by and far the best actuality I knew,” his acquaintance Will Randle said. “He inherently fabricated us all bigger bodies by artlessly absolute about us. Allotment of him will consistently alive on in every acceptable accommodation I make.”
Nelson Thielen, 21, declared Vielma as “the kindest, gentlest anatomy I’ve anytime known.” The two were like brothers, he said, afterwards years of meetings, trips and retreats with All Souls Catholic Abbey in Sanford. Vielma was set to go on addition mission cruise as an developed baton with the adolescence accumulation at the end of June to Richmond, Va.
“He generally went out of his way to accomplish accompany with everyone, and accomplish abiding anybody was comfortable,” Thielen said. “He was generally the aboriginal actuality to acquaint himself, but never fabricated himself the centermost of attention.”
Vielma was appreciative of his Mexican heritage, Thielen said, and his Facebook folio is abounding with videos of him bamboozlement a soccer ball. He said Vielma didn’t generally go to clubs.
“He aloof happened to be there one of the few nights he anytime absolutely went out to that affectionate of thing,” Thielen said. “It was the amiss night.”
Kimberly “KJ” Morris confused to Orlando afresh to advice her mother and grandmother. She was a bouncer at Pulse.
“She was so excited. She’d aloof started alive there and told me how she was captivated to get added complex in the LGBT association there,” ex-girlfriend Starr Shelton to the Orlando Sentinel.
Morris lived in Hawaii afore affective to Orlando and played academy basketball at Column University in Connecticut.
When bullets started flying, Amends texted his mother.
The aboriginal bulletin accomplished Mina Justice’s buzz at 2:06 a.m.: “Mommy I adulation you.”
They would barter desultory argument letters until aloof afore 3 a.m.: “He’s coming. I’m gonna die,” he wrote at about 2:40 a.m.
“He’s a terror.”
Justice, Mina told the Associated Press, was an accountant who lived in burghal Orlando. He lived rich, she said.
Normally a acquaintance who admired to eat and assignment out, Justice, she said, admired to accomplish anybody laugh.
Burt was a banking aid administrator at Keiser University in Jacksonville and formed with the school’s aggressive students, the Florida Times-Union reported. He was ahead a abundance administrator at McDonald’s.
“We are actual afflicted to be ambidextrous with this loss,” Keiser President Lisamarie Winslow said. “He was one of our ancestors associates and aggregation associates and he was actual admired as an agent and friend.”
Drayton formed at Pulse, according to a Facebook column by her aunt.
“My niece, Deonka ‘Dee Dee’ Drayton was asleep in this abhorrent tragedy,” Patricia Drayton Banks said. “Senseless. She was at work! R.I.P. Dee Dee. You apperceive this Auntie will absence you.”
“I accept no words to accurate how aching it has been,” Martinez’s aunt, Meibys Martinez of Hialeah, said. “This has been actual adverse for all of us.”
Martinez, who batten actual little English, was visiting Ilia Sola because he charge advice advice a letter, the Tampa Bay Times reported. He spent four canicule on Sola’s couch afore visiting the night club Sunday.
Sola told the Times that he admired arena about with his 8-year-old half-sister.
“I apperceive he was a absolutely nice person,” Sola told a reporter. “He was consistently happy.”
Laureanodisla, who lived in Orlando and was from Puerto Rico, advised at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, according to Facebook.
“I can’t accept it,” his acquaintance Alexandel Rivera posted. “Always said that we were activity to die old together. RIP Anthony Laureano my dancer, my brother.”
Perez had been dating Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, addition victim, for about eight years, said Daniel Gmy-Casiano, a acquaintance of Wilson-Leon’s. Gmy-Casiano met Perez in Orlando a few years ago and was addled by his affection and concrete fitness.
“Jean was consistently absolutely fit,” Gmy-Casiano said. “I was sitting in the active allowance aback I aboriginal met him and he was accomplishing push-ups.”
Franky was a beheld baron at Forever 21 and was additionally a able ballerina specializing in Jibaro, a blazon of Puerto Rican folk music, the Daily Beast said. He lived in Orlando and is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Alvarez was months abroad from alpha nursing academy at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
The drop on a abode was due Tuesday and the boxes were able for Alvarez and her parents to move to Tampa.
The 25-year-old had been alive two jobs, at a bounded hospital and a bounded CVS pharmacy, to adapt and save up for an closing nursing career.
“That was her passion,” said her cousin, Lizbeth Marie Davila Benabe, 30. “She had the affection for it.”
Pulse, Benabe said, was a admired destination for Alvear and her accompany — including Mercedez Flores, 26, who additionally was asleep in the shooting. The two women, who had accustomed anniversary added for about 12 years, had already taken trips to New York and Puerto Rico together.
“We absent love, light,” said Joshua Davila, her 23-year-old cousin. “She was aloof great, you know? She will be absent dearly, she was a astounding actuality who admired unconditionally.”
A GoFundMe has been accustomed for Alvear’s family. In 2001, Alvear, one of three children, absent her earlier brother, Nelson, to osteosarcoma, a blazon of cartilage cancer, Benabe said.
Torres had aloof accustomed in Orlando to appointment ancestors a few canicule afore the Pulse bistro shooting, the Orlando Sentinel said. He was a apprentice at Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez in San Juan.
Torres acquaint videos on his Facebook page, one of which showed aliment beatific to Orlando by his mother, the Sentinel said.
“Going to absence that big smile consistently happy,” his cousin, Sonia N. Crapps, said. “I can’t accept that my accessory is gone too soon. He was an amazing actuality axial and outside. I am so annoyed of bodies killing added bodies like our ancestors and friends.”
Wilson was consistently altered while growing up in the Pentecostal Church, antic continued beard and sideburns alike admitting the abbey disapproved. Daniel Gmy-Casiano, 39, grew up with Wilson in Puerto Rico and they came out to anniversary added afore anyone abroad knew.
“I sat bottomward and started arrant and told Danny, ‘I’m gay,’ ” Gmy-Casiano said. “He adequate me, adequate my abstruse and acquainted this adventuresomeness I gave him advancing out, so he came out to me.”
Wilson confused to the United States for a beginning start, clearing in Vero Coffer admitting a bound ability of English.
“He bare to breathe, bare to be chargeless so he absitively to move to the States,” Gmy-Casiano said. “He gave me a job at a shoe abundance from 2008 to 2009 and we went through a lot.”
Gmy-Casanio larboard Orlando for assignment in Texas, and anon thereafter Wilson met Juan Carlos Mendez Perez, 35, addition victim in Sunday’s shooting.
Wilson and Gmy-Casiano generally talked about their female and how it would appulse their faith. One day, Gmy-Casiano asked Wilson if they would go to hell for actuality gay.
“I don’t know, we’ll acquisition out aback we’re dead,” Wilson said to Gmy-Casiano. “We accept to adulation ourselves the way we are.”
“He was the aboriginal actuality on this apple I came out to, and he consistently adequate and admired his friends,” Gmys-Casiano said on Facebook. “A admirable adolescent man abounding of life, who encountered endless canicule of blowing while growing up.”
Flores was originally from Queens and formed at Target, according to Facebook. She was active in Davenport, Fla.
“It is not fair that such a alarming act of abhorrence would booty the activity of a admirable soul,” her brother Cesar Flores said on Facebook. “No words can alarm the affliction my ancestors is activity through.”
Serrano formed at Disney Live, according to his Facebook page.
“I am so blessed you are no best in pain, but this absolute apple feels the appulse of you not actuality here,” his acquaintance Matt Molandes said on Facebook. “Look over us, watch over us, we alive in your name.”
Menendez formed as a sales accessory at Speedway and advised healthcare administration at Ana G. Méndez Metro Orlando campus, according to Facebook. He was originally from Manati, Puerto Rico.
Carrillo was at Pulse with Oscar Aracena, who additionally was killed.
“Simon A. Carrillo and Oscar Aracena Rest in Accord you admirable souls,” Denise Ortiz-Pagan said on Facebook. “And may we all acquisition a way to alleviate and go on.”
Aracena was at Pulse with his boyfriend, Simon Carrillo.
“Still adamantine to accept that I don’t accept my accomplice with me,” his accessory Joel Aracena said. “I’m activity to absence you.”
Rios was a coordinator at Accurate Affliction Home Health Affliction Agency and lived in Brooklyn, according to Facebook. He abounding St. Francis Academy in Brooklyn.
“He was a abundant actuality with a affection of gold,” his accessory Christine Jimenez said on Facebook. “He afflicted so abounding lives and now he is gone forever!”
Hororato, from Apopka, Fla., was at Pulse with three accompany who all fabricated it out safely. He had a wife and three accouchement according to the Guardian.
Jorge-Reyes was a administrator at Gucci and was from Puerto Rico, according to Facebook.
“Today I woke up to the account I spent all night acquisitive not to hear,” his acquaintance Ellen Taaffe said. “Your smile was catching and your acknowledge consistently entertaining! You fabricated me fee like a admirable woman and mother alike on canicule I couldn’t see it, and you had an astonishing adroitness for authoritative my babyish bang on appeal aback I was pregnant! You are so actual admired and never forgotten.”
According to Mexican media reports, Paniagua came to the United States from the Mexican accompaniment of Veracruz in chase of a bigger life. He had lived in Florida for six years.
“He formed day and night to accelerate money to his family,” his acquaintance Norman Joel de Jesus wrote on Facebook. “For him, his ancestors was everything. I will never balloon aback he would argument me at 5 in the morning aloof to acquaint me to accept a acceptable day. Joel, I will consistently backpack you in my thoughts...I will never balloon your humility.”
Josaphat, one of the youngest victims articular in the shooting, was absorbed in computers, photography and alive out.
“He was actual aflame about his journey,” his uncle, Christopher Long, told the Orlando Sentinel. “He mentioned to me that he capital to alpha demography pictures. He had a affection for photography. He was aloof absolute special.”
His ancestors spent Sunday aggravating to acquisition out what happened and were eventually beatific home from the hospital on Sunday night afore acquirements the adverse account on Monday morning.
Connell advised sports journalism and broadcasting at Valencia Association College, according to his Facebook profile. A GoFundMe accustomed by agents at the Academy Park Association Paper had aloft over $2,000 in an hour.
Chris Richards, a acquaintance of Connell’s aback aerial school, said Connell dreamed of actuality a firefighter and had aloof been accustomed to a bounded EMT academy in Orlando.
“He was actual amorous about allowance bodies and consistently put others afore himself,” Richards said.
He remembers bowling and jet skiing with Connell, who admired sports.
“Cory was the blazon of actuality who would consistently put a smile on your face and the acquaintance who was consistently there for you,” Richards said.
Rivera was at Pulse with his partner, Luis Daniel Conde, who additionally was asleep in the attack. They were adulatory a friend’s birthday.
Conde was at Pulse with Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, who additionally was killed. He was from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, according to Facebook. They were adulatory a friend’s birthday.
Tomlinson sang with his bandage Frequency on Saturday night at Blue Martini nightclub, the Orlando Sentinel reported. His bandage frequently performed at the club and was accustomed for accoutrement songs from the 1970s through the 2010s. Frequency was appointed to comedy three shows in the abutting two weeks at the Blue Martinis in Tampa and Orlando.
Tomlinson accelerating from East Carolina University in 2003 and accelerating from Northwest Cabarrus Aerial Academy in 1999.
Chevez-Martinez formed at Reunion Resorts. A adolescent agent told the Orlando Sentinel he was “very affectionate and loving.”
Wright was a melancholia agent who formed at Walt Disney World. He went to Pulse to bless his friend’s 21st birthday, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Fernandez was a lover of music, assuming choreographed dances while singing Beyoncé or Jennifer Lopez, the Orlando Sentinel said.
“He abounding our appointment with music,” said Yolando Quinones-Perez, Fernandez’s friend. “He sang Adele in the appointment until we couldn’t booty it anymore. It aloof feels actual quiet now.”
Crosby was a business buyer who had his own business firm, Total Enterprise Concepts, according to the Orlando Sentinel. He frequently acquaint adorning memes on Facebook.
“He was actual ambitious,” his brother Chavis Crosby said. “Whatever ambition he had in mind, he formed hard. Whether abandoned or on a team, he formed on that goal. He was absolutely a acceptable actuality and a acceptable brother to me.”
Camuy was a apprentice announcer in Puerto Rico and confused to Florida to assignment for Telemundo. He formed on the appearance La Voz Kids that affectedness on the arrangement and is produced in Orlando.
“We appetite to extend our thoughts, prayers and centermost condolences to Jonathan’s ancestors and friends,” Cesar Conde, administrator of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, said. “He was a abundant abettor ambassador and had been alive with us aback Yo Soy el Artista and ahead at Telemundo Puerto Rico. Jonathan will be absent dearly.”
Rodriguez bought his aboriginal abode a ages and a bisected ago so his mother could alive achieve nice, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
“He was aloof a caring, admiring guy — aloof like a big teddy bear,” said one of his best friends, Ivonne Irizarry.
Rodriguez was the accepted administrator of a check-cashing store. He admired cars and activity to the beach.
“Whatever you needed, you could calculation on him,” Irizarry said. “Whatever the bearings was, acceptable or bad, he was with me. He was a friend. He was family. He was a brother. And it didn’t amount the time. If you alleged him and you bare help, he’d be there.”
Ayala, a Puerto Rico native, was a analysis abettor at OneBlood, according to his Facebook profile. OneBlood, a southeastern claret bank, has been at the beginning of accession claret for the victims of the Orlando massacre.
Ayala, who accelerating from a Puerto Rican university in 2005, was best afresh active in Kissimmee.
McCool acquaint at midnight on the 11th a video of bodies dancing at Pulse nightclub.
Farrell Marshall, one of McCool’s 11 children, started a GoFundMe folio in his mother’s honor. The folio had aloft $4,500 in beneath than 24 hours.
“All I ask is for prayers and whatever you can to advice me and brothers sisters to aces up the pieces area she larboard off,” Marshall said.
Known as Mary, Solivan was at the club with accompany and ancestors Sunday, the New York Times reported.
Her brother-in-law, William Sabad Borges, acquaint a account on Facebook taken with Solivan and Jonathan Vega, addition victim, aloof afore the apache opened fire. In his post, he said Vega was begin careful Solivan’s body.
“Mary, you leave with a affliction that I never anticipation I would feel,” Borges wrote in Spanish on Facebook. “Mary, I adulation you with all the backbone of my being.”
Leinonen confused from Detroit to Orlando years ago, WXYZ reported. His mother, Christine Leinonen, pleaded on civic television for her son’s assurance afore his afterlife was announced.
“I larboard him with ‘I adulation you Chris,’ ” she said on ABC news. “We’re on this apple for such a abbreviate time. Let’s try to get rid of the abhorrence and the violence, please!”
Candelario-Padro, an Orlando resident, formed as an ophthalmic artisan at Florida Retina Institute, according to his Facebook profile. He advised nursing at Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Recinto Metropolitano. He declared himself in his Facebook addition as “an adventurous, amenable but amenable man that would like to alive the activity completely.”
Julissa Leal collection 12 hours from Louisiana to Orlando to acquisition her earlier brother.
Leal accustomed a alarm from his boyfriend, who had absent clue of Hernandez in the anarchy of bullets and the screams. The admirer had been shot, but would survive.
“He told us that aback the man started shooting, he got hit and started running,” said Leal, 18. “But aback he looked back, he didn’t see him.”
He formed at a Calvin Klein abundance in Orlando and had been active in the burghal for three years.
Henry, a Chicago native, admired to brawl and accept fun, his admirer Francisco Hernandez told the Orlando Sentinel.
“I absence him. I adulation him,’’ Hernandez said in an email to the Sentinel. “I took affliction of him, and he took affliction of me. Such a admiring spirit. I’ll consistently accept him in my heart.
His daughter, Alexia, had aloof accelerating aerial school.
Brown was confined in the U.S. Army as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He was additionally a above apprentice at Florida A&M University.
FAMU appear this account on Monday:
“Our hearts go out to all of the families of those afflicted in the adverse cutting that took abode in Orlando on Sunday morning. The abominable adventure happened not far from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Law Academy in burghal Orlando.
“We are abnormally afflicted by the account that one of the victims was allotment of the FAMU family. 29-year-old Antonio Davon Brown was a bent amends above from Cocoa Beach, Florida and a affiliate of ROTC during his time on the Hill. He accelerating from FAMU in 2008 and is actuality remembered affectionately by classmates and adolescent alumni on amusing media. We will abide to amend you about affairs for a canonizing or account of afterthought for alum Brown.
“In the meantime, the Florida A&M University association stands with the absolute Orlando association in the deathwatch of tragedy. Our thoughts, and prayers for peace, are with anybody in axial Florida and beyond this nation.”
Sanfeliz formed for JP Morgan Chase, according to his Facebook profile. Coworkers and accompany acquaint on amusing media, canonizing him from his assignment as a claimed broker or from boot bandage at Gaither Aerial Academy in Tampa.
Gabriel Santiago, 30, remembers allowance Sanfeliz amount out how to tie his necktie as co-workers at JP Morgan Chase in Tampa.
“It was a alliance affiliation that will never be replaced,” he said of their accord and assignment together.
More than anything, Santiago said, Sanfeliz approved to accomplish anybody beam and smile.
“That smile could absolutely ablaze up a room,” Santiago said, anecdotic Sanfeliz as a antic and jokester.
“He was an all-embracing accomplished animal being.”
Murray’s mother was on the buzz with her blood-soaked babe as she angled in a bath stall, ambuscade from the shooter, the AP reported. Murray was in Orlando adulatory her graduation from West Catholic Preparatory Academy in Philadelphia.
The 18-year-old accelerating third in her chic aftermost anniversary and was headed to Mercyhurst Academy in Erie, Pa., the AP reported. She was the youngest victim.
Ortiz-Jimenez, a built-in of the Dominican Republic, lived in Carolina, Puerto Rico and abounding Universidad del Este, according to his Facebook page.
A Selena Gomez fan, he abounding her Revival bout achievement in Orlando Friday night and acquaint several photos and videos from the concert on his Facebook page, calling her the “queen of the night” in Spanish.
