The Orlando Police Department has released the names of eight victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, with more to be announced as next of kin are notified.
Guerrero worked as a telemarketer, and recently began taking classes at University of Central Florida. "He was always this amazing person [and] he was like a big brother to me," his cousin, Robert Guerrero, told AP. "He was never the type to go out to parties, would rather stay home and care for his niece and nephew." When Almodovar's mother, Rosalie Ramos, received a call in the middle of the night telling her to rush down to Pulse, she was hoping her son had been shot in the "hand or leg," since you can "survive" a shot there, but he was hit in the chest, stomach, and side, and died at Orlando Regional Medical Center, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Almodovar was a pharmacy technician with a promising future, his aunt Yoly said, and an "amazing person with a good soul."
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Update: More victims from the shooting have been identified: Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30; Darryl Roman Burt II, 29; Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32; Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21; Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25; Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35; and Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50.
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