Among those killed were Edward Sotomayor Jr., left, and Stanley Almodovar, right, who were at the Pulse nightclub on Sunday.
The names of those who lost their lives in the Orlando nightclub massacre have begun to emerge.
On Sunday evening, just hours after 50 people died and another 53 were injured at the Pulse gay club, authorities began listing the names of the victims on the City of Orlando website.
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By Monday morning, 36 of the victims had been named. Party-goers as young as 20 were among those who lost their lives, according to authorities.
Luis Vielma worked on the Harry Potter ride at Universal. He was 22 years old. I can't stop crying. #Orlando pic.twitter.com/Nz2ZCWxNsS
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 13, 2016
Among those killed were 34-year-old Edward Sotomayor Jr., 23-year-old Stanley Almodovar III, 20-year-old Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 22-year-old Juan Ramon Guerrero, 36-year-old student Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 22-year-old Luis S. Vielma and 22-year-old Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz.
"On this very difficult day, we offer heartfelt condolences to today's victims and their families," the website reads. "Our City is working tirelessly to get as much information out to the families so they can begin the grieving process. Please keep the following individuals in your thoughts and prayers."
One of the victims, Edward Sotomayor, was the brand manager for a travel company and a former sales manager for a gay and lesbian lifestyle publication. A friend shared a video to Facebook that he said Sotomayor had sent from inside the club before the shooting. "My people are here," Sotomayor had said in the video, according to the post.
Sotomayor was known as "Top Hat Eddie" to his friends for his love of top hats.
Almodovar, who friends called kind and humble, was an administrative pharmacy technician from Massachusetts who was living in Clermont, Florida, according to his Facebook profile.
"We'll miss you Stanley," one friend wrote on his page. "You made an impact on everyone that you came around. A good person and friend."
Juan Ramon Guerrero was a student at the University of Central Florida. The 22-year-old was described as "a beautiful soul."
Twenty-year-old victim Omar Ocasio-Capo is one of the youngest who died. He was a barista at Starbuck's.
Mercedez Flores worked at Target and was at Pulse for a "girl's night out" when she was murdered.
Kimberly Morris had moved to Florida from Connecticut just months earlier. She was a bouncer at Pulse.
On Facebook, Gonzalez-Cruz's mother thanked friends for their kind words. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love that you have shown me regarding my son," she wrote.
"As a mother, I feel a deep and immense pain as everyone else who's going through this," she added.
Families of missing club-goers have been gathering at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Orlando, anxiously waiting for any updates about their loved ones.
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On Sunday morning, ABC News reported that one mother, Christine Leinonen, is waiting for word on her son’s whereabouts — after his friend posted on Facebook that they had been at the club.
"They said there's a lot of dead bodies at the club and that's a crime scene and they can't identify anybody so it could be hours and hours before we find out,” she said.
She last spoke to her son, Christopher, around 6 p.m. Saturday. "I left him with 'I love you, Chris,'" she said.
On Monday morning, she told the Today show that she had still hadn't received confirmation that he was among the victims, but no hospitals had contacted her to say he was alive.
Tributes were popping up across the U.S. for the victims. Organizers of the Tony Awards said the show on Sunday night would be dedicated to those who were killed in the attack, while attendees were given small white ribbons in remembrance of the victims.
In New York City, the Empire Building’s lights were dark “in sympathy for the victims of last night’s attack in Orlando,” according to its Twitter page.
One World Trade Center was lit in the colors of the pride flag to honor the LGBT community and those who lost their lives in the attack.
The gunman opened fire in the nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning. He had pledged allegiance to ISIS, and the terror group has since claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims have been identified as:
Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old
Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old
Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 years old
Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old
Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old
Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 years old
Luis S. Vielma, 22 years old
Kimberly Morris, 37 years old
Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old
Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old
Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old
Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old
Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25 years old
Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old
Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 years old
Amanda Alvear, 25 years old
Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old
Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old
Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old
Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 years old
Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 years old
Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31 years old
Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 years old
Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old
Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old
Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 years old
Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old
Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
Cory James Connell, 21 years old
Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 years old
Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25 years old
Jerald Arthur Wright, 31 years old
Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 years old
Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 years old
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