Names of victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting

RNN) – Fifty people were killed and 53 were injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday. After three hours, police stormed the club where the gunman, Omar Mateen, was holding hostages in a restroom.

Officials are releasing names of those killed after they are able to notify next-of-kin.

The following are the names of the victims, as released by Orlando officials.

• Edward Sotomayor Jr., age 34
• Stanley Almodovar III, age 23
• Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, age 20
• Juan Ramon Guerrero, age 22,
• Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, age 36
• Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, age 22
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