Colon Gomez, who was a former flatmate of Ortiz said “We have seven friends who were there, and already we know three are dead”.
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Here are the victims whose next of kin have been notified.
Mr Sotomayor worked for a company that organised gay cruises and spent much of his work life travelling to promote their events. She said ‘I’m hiding in the bathroom.
Friends of the pair began changing their Facebook profile pictures to pictures of the women, and Alvear’s brother again took to Facebook to confirm she had “passed”.
“We haven’t heard anything, don’t know anything”, Leal said, fighting back tears. “He can turn my mood by a conversation”.
Eric Ortiz, 36, came to Florida from Puerto Rico, where he earned a communications degree from Universidad Central de Bayamon, to make a career and a better life. Roberto Escobar Vega, a cousin of Flores’ sister-in-law, created a GoFundMe campaign Monday to raise money to cover transportation costs for Flores’ relatives in NY to travel to Florida for her funeral.
“He was always this unbelievable person (and) he was like a big brother to me”, Robert Guerrerro told the AP. “He was never the type to go out to parties, would rather stay home and care for his niece and nephew”.
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36, Orlando, Fla.
“F-k today, goodnight”, he wrote after he was told of his sister’s passing, adding that he was not looking forward to telling his daughters the news Monday.
“As far as we can tell right now, this is certainly an example of the kind of homegrown extremism that all of us have been so concerned about for a very long time”, he told reporters at the White House. “He was all about interior design”.
“As Americans, we are united in grief, in outrage and in resolve to defend our people”.
Cory Connell, a 21-year old college student from the nearby suburb of Edgewater, loved to play football and worked part-time at a local grocery store, friends recalled.
Luis Vielma, 22, worked at Universal Studios on one of the rides at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
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He did not tell them until just before the beginning of this year. “We are determined to continue living in an open and tolerant way even if such murderous attacks plunge us into deep mourning”, Merkel said.
