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But that became unnecessary due to my decision yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In answer to a question from KRON's Dan Kerman about how Fairow's rapid removal reflected on her leadership and decision-making, she said that she was owning her mistake. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The important thing is that I'm fixing it, I'm fixing it quickly, and I'm not trying to hide or not disclose what I'm doing or why I'm doing it,\" Schaaf said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf has selected an assistant police chief, Paul Figueroa, to serve as acting chief of the department -- the OPD's sixth permanent, interim or acting chief since 2009. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said Figueroa's short-term appointment was designed to allow time for \"a more appropriate\" search for an interim chief, who will be in place while the city continues a nationwide search for a permanent chief. The interim chief, she said, will be someone from outside the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to take some time to make the best interim move, because the leadership of this department at this moment in time is very important,\" Schaaf said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the sexual misconduct scandal embroiling the department, she added: \"We are dealing with disgusting allegations that upset me greatly, and I believe that the leadership at this time is critical in order to build confidence that the culture of this department does not tolerate unethical behavior, sexual misconduct or lying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf reiterated that theme when asked about the scandal, in which one officer has committed suicide, two have resigned and three others have been placed on leave because of allegations they were involved with a teenage girl who reportedly worked as a prostitute in Oakland and Richmond. Some of the encounters are said to have taken place before the girl turned 18 last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express reported last week\u003c/a> that Chief Whent was pushed out because he mishandled the case. Schaaf has characterized Whent's departure as voluntary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two civil rights attorneys who brought the lawsuit that landed OPD in the oversight of federal Judge Thelton Henderson in 2003 said Wednesday that they are considering pushing for expanding Henderson and Federal Monitor Warshaw’s control over the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Burris and Jim Chanin said they’re considering filing a motion to create a “limited form” of federal receivership, and take control of recruitment, hiring and training out of OPD’s hands, both noting that most if not all OPD officers under investigation are recent hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is stunning because we’re talking about officers essentially being ‘Sir Galahad’ in the day time and sexual predators in the evening,” Burris said. “They should not be involved in illegal activity, and they should not be passing a young girl around like she was a rag doll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about her personal feelings on the case and the department's alleged role, Schaaf said she's determined to make sure the Police Department's culture \"does not tolerate immoral behavior, bad judgment, disrespect -- and certainly does not tolerate the victimization of sexually exploited minors. I hope people feel how important this is to me. It is disgusting and disturbing that this type of behavior could go on or be tolerated, and that is something I am very committed to rooting out as well as holding people accountable who engaged in it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said that Fairow \"was very professional in his understanding of the situation and my decision.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday morning, the East Bay Times published a story headlined \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_30015886/oakland-new-chief-called-straight-arrow\" target=\"_blank\">New Oakland police chief called a 'straight arrow\u003c/a>.'\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece briefly details Fairow's OPD career and quotes his former boss, retired Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, who quit the job with no notice in 2013:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During his days at OPD, Fairow was among a group of officers who called themselves the \"other commanders\" and pushed for department reforms, including cameras in interview rooms and better management of confidential informants, said former police Chief Howard Jordan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We felt we were the younger, more progressive group, and the older, more senior command officers were sort of old school,\" said Jordan, who has known Fairow for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairow's work earned him a department nickname.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Straight as an Arrow' Fairow, he does things by the book and is not afraid to make tough decisions,\" Jordan said. \"If he makes a mistake, he will be the first to admit it.\".\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"schaafstatement\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full text of Schaaf's statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Oakland, CA — Mayor Libby Schaaf today announced the immediate removal of Interim Police Chief Ben Fairow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the abrupt resignation of Sean Whent last week, we sought to have seamless leadership of the Oakland Police Department and selected an individual who understood the dynamics in Oakland and who, based on his previous employment with OPD, could hit the ground running. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, I have just received information that has caused me to lose confidence in Ben Fairow’s ability to lead the Oakland Police Department at this particular moment in time. OPD staff, members of our community and City leadership deserve to have complete trust and confidence in our Chief, especially during this critical transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law prohibits me from further elaborating on the specific factors that led to this decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I made the decision to appoint Ben Fairow, I also own the decision to remove him. I firmly believe that when you make a mistake, you need to own it, and act quickly to correct it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I appreciate Ben’s willingness to come to the aid of our city, and regret that his appointment was not the right decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, Assistant Chief Paul Figueroa will temporarily serve as Acting Police Chief effective immediately while we identify an Interim Chief and conduct a national search to fill the role of Chief permanently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that the vast majority of the men and women of the Oakland Police Department are dedicated public servants whose efforts have moved this department forward and made Oakland safer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I recognize the impact that this chain of events may have on the Department and how it may shake the public trust, but I am committed to ensuring the long-term health, stability and effectiveness of the Oakland Police Department. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ben has shared information with me that, while he was married, he had a personal relationship with a consenting adult more than a decade ago, none of which precludes him from serving as a sworn law enforcement officer or as one of my Deputy Chiefs,\" Rainey said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf told reporters earlier Wednesday that no full background investigation had been conducted before Fairow was appointed and that the vetting process involved only \"brief interviews\" conducted in her office. She added that Robert Warshaw, the court-appointed official monitoring the Police Department's compliance with reforms mandated by its 2003 settlement of a civil rights lawsuit, had concurred in the choice of Fairow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chief Fairow is someone I have personally worked with for many years,\" Schaaf told reporters. \"He enjoys a very good reputation, and we were in the process of doing a more formal background check process. But that became unnecessary due to my decision yesterday.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In answer to a question from KRON's Dan Kerman about how Fairow's rapid removal reflected on her leadership and decision-making, she said that she was owning her mistake. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The important thing is that I'm fixing it, I'm fixing it quickly, and I'm not trying to hide or not disclose what I'm doing or why I'm doing it,\" Schaaf said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf has selected an assistant police chief, Paul Figueroa, to serve as acting chief of the department -- the OPD's sixth permanent, interim or acting chief since 2009. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said Figueroa's short-term appointment was designed to allow time for \"a more appropriate\" search for an interim chief, who will be in place while the city continues a nationwide search for a permanent chief. The interim chief, she said, will be someone from outside the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to take some time to make the best interim move, because the leadership of this department at this moment in time is very important,\" Schaaf said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of the sexual misconduct scandal embroiling the department, she added: \"We are dealing with disgusting allegations that upset me greatly, and I believe that the leadership at this time is critical in order to build confidence that the culture of this department does not tolerate unethical behavior, sexual misconduct or lying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf reiterated that theme when asked about the scandal, in which one officer has committed suicide, two have resigned and three others have been placed on leave because of allegations they were involved with a teenage girl who reportedly worked as a prostitute in Oakland and Richmond. Some of the encounters are said to have taken place before the girl turned 18 last August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express reported last week\u003c/a> that Chief Whent was pushed out because he mishandled the case. Schaaf has characterized Whent's departure as voluntary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two civil rights attorneys who brought the lawsuit that landed OPD in the oversight of federal Judge Thelton Henderson in 2003 said Wednesday that they are considering pushing for expanding Henderson and Federal Monitor Warshaw’s control over the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Burris and Jim Chanin said they’re considering filing a motion to create a “limited form” of federal receivership, and take control of recruitment, hiring and training out of OPD’s hands, both noting that most if not all OPD officers under investigation are recent hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is stunning because we’re talking about officers essentially being ‘Sir Galahad’ in the day time and sexual predators in the evening,” Burris said. “They should not be involved in illegal activity, and they should not be passing a young girl around like she was a rag doll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about her personal feelings on the case and the department's alleged role, Schaaf said she's determined to make sure the Police Department's culture \"does not tolerate immoral behavior, bad judgment, disrespect -- and certainly does not tolerate the victimization of sexually exploited minors. I hope people feel how important this is to me. 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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County prosecutors have taken what they call \"a rare and carefully considered step\" to block the judge at the center of the Brock Turner sexual assault case from participating in a new case involving alleged sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen used a prosecutor's peremptory challenge to keep Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky from presiding over the new case. Rosen's move was related to Persky's decision to dismiss a theft case on Monday and is also the latest chapter in the intensifying fallout from the Turner case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, Persky sentenced Turner, 20, a former Stanford swimmer, to six months in county jail and three years probation for sexually assaulting a young woman passed out after drinking heavily at a fraternity party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner had faced a maximum of 14 years in state prison for his three felony convictions, and prosecutors had sought a sentence of six years. In following \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/12/us/document-SentencingPacket.html\" target=\"_blank\">a probation officer's recommendation\u003c/a> for leniency, Persky expressed concern about the impact a longer sentence would have on Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"sagktDYsRcudKASWWAQ3FPjTleaBnujI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A firestorm followed: First, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.dow7ZWjzK#.pq5BrqK8n\" target=\"_blank\">publication of the victim's statement\u003c/a>, which questioned whether Turner had really taken responsibility for his acts. Next, \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/california-state-house-recall-judge-aaron-persky\" target=\"_blank\">an online petition\u003c/a> to remove Persky from the bench, which, though it has no legal force, has gotten more than 1.2 million signatures to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, one of the jurors in the Turner case released a letter to the judge saying he was \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/14/juror-in-stanford-sex-assault-case-absolutely-shocked-and-appalled-by-sentence\" target=\"_blank\">shocked and appalled\u003c/a>\" by the sentence. Sunday on the Stanford campus, some graduating students \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stanford-protest-20160612-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">participated in a protest\u003c/a> against Persky and the sentence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, at least 10 prospective jurors \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29997198/judge-aaron-persky-prospective-jurors-refuse-serve\" target=\"_blank\">refused to serve\u003c/a> in an unrelated misdemeanor theft case Persky was hearing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was that theft case that led to District Attorney Rosen's unusual move Tuesday to stop Persky from presiding over a preliminary hearing involving a male San Jose nurse who faces charges he sexually assaulted a patient while she was sedated. The hearing would determine whether prosecutors have presented enough evidence to bring the suspect to trial. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney exercised his challenge the day after Persky tossed out a misdemeanor theft trial before it reached the jury. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are disappointed and puzzled at Judge Persky's unusual decision to unilaterally dismiss a case before the jury could deliberate,\" the district attorney said in a prepared statement. \"After this and the recent turn of events, we lack confidence that Judge Persky can fairly participate in this upcoming hearing in which a male nurse sexually assaulted an anesthetized female patient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said he hasn't decided whether he will disqualify Persky from all new sexual assault cases that may get assigned to him in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the future, we will evaluate each case on its own merits,\" Rosen said, \"and decide if we should use our legal right to ask for another judge in order to protect public safety and pursue justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Persky nor other Superior Court officials commented publicly on Rosen's move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Sunday morning, a gunman at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Fla., perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. He killed 49 people and injured more than 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Orlando has released the names of the identified victims, after notifying their next of kin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our City is working tirelessly to get as much information out to the families so they can begin the grieving process,\" reads \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityoforlando.net/blog/victims/\">the city's statement\u003c/a>. \"Please keep the following individuals in your thoughts and prayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated with further information about the victims as we learn more.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34, Sarasota, Fla.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1651128895140716&set=a.1456483344605273.1073741826.100007308646818&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to multiple \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-sotomayor-2920102a\">social media profiles\u003c/a>, Sotomayor worked as the national brand manager for Al and Chuck Travel, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.alandchuck.travel/\">describes itself\u003c/a> as \"part of America's largest gay owned travel company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with The Associated Press, David Sotomayor, who identified himself as Sotomayor's cousin, said Edward was a \"caring, energetic man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christina Copelli, who lives in Vienna, was on three cruises with Sotomayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a lovely, kind guy who touched everyone who had the pleasure of meeting him,\" she told NPR. \"I can't believe he's gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stanley Almodovar III, 23, Clermont, Fla.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1155455764495846&set=a.141355302572569.19044.100000942997282&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almodovar worked as a pharmacy technician, according to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/stanley.almodovariii\">Facebook profile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He made me feel like it was perfectly fine being who I was,\" Almodovar's friend Haze Ramirez told The Two-Way. She says they met at Pulse and \"clicked instantly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You would know when Stanley entered a room,\" she said. \"He can turn my mood by a conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[JuanRamonGuerrero]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero, who had recently begun attending the University of Central Florida, had only recently come out to his family as gay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.local10.com/news/juan-guerrero-one-victims-story\">according to The Associated Press\u003c/a>. In a conversation with the news service, his cousin Robert Guerrero said he opened up to his family just before the start of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was always this amazing person (and) he was like a big brother to me,\" Robert Guerrero told the AP. \"He was never the type to go out to parties, would rather stay home and care for his niece and nephew.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36, Orlando, Fla.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156760768130043&set=a.10151167640545043.794361.642480042&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortiz-Rivera was the man everyone in his family asked for design advice, his cousin Orlando Gonzalez \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/live/orlando-nightclub-shooting-live-updates/a-goofball-who-liked-to-dance/\">told The New York Times\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was very artistic,\" Gonzalez told the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>. \"He was all about interior design.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper reports that the 36-year-old \"goofball\" — Gonzalez's words — lived in downtown Orlando with his husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis S. Vielma, 22, Sanford, Fla.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209592336824700&set=a.1647388344026.90491.1216463164&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Luis was by far the best person I knew,\" his friend Will Randle \u003ca href=\"http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article83331157.html\">told the Miami Herald\u003c/a>. \"He inherently made us all better people by simply existing around us. Part of him will always live on in every good decision I make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his Facebook page, Vielma worked at Universal Studios in Orlando, including on the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride. \u003cem>Harry Potter \u003c/em>author J.K. Rowling mourned him on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[LuisVielma]\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207764110794695&set=a.1525104841518.2074999.1051549758&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Ommy Gonzalez-Cruz went by \"Ommy,\" his aunt \u003ca href=\"http://m.heraldtribune.com/Top%20News/Who%20were%20the%20Orlando%20shooting%20victims?/http:%7C%7Cwww.heraldtribune.com%7Carticle%7C20160613%7Carticle%7C160619859\">told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Peter makes a difference everywhere he goes. He was a happy person,\" Sonia Cruz told the paper. \"If Peter is not at the party, no one wants to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzelez-Cruz went to Pulse with his best friend, Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menendez also died in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=929117230486668&set=a.103353366396396.4251.100001651991333&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Capo was a passionate dancer, according to remembrances being left for him online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"May the only time you rest,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1635818470071966&set=a.1392639774389838.1073741832.100009314864912&type=3&theater\">Tamandra Diaz wrote\u003c/a>, be after you \"make some kick ass choreo up in paradise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His friend Julius Ortiz was with him at Pulse, but left shortly before the shooting. Ortiz told NPR's Ari Shapiro that after the shooting began, he sent Capo text after text after text, trying to reach him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also remembered Capo helping him out when he was in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was in a very hard situation — because with my dad, I was staying with him and he kicked me out — he actually took me in for a little,\" Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kimberly Morris, 37\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100316379913970&set=a.570460116250.2098152.5902286&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly \"KJ\" Morris was a bouncer at Pulse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved to Orlando this spring, from Hawaii, in order to help her mother and grandmother, \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/orlando-nightclub-shooting-kimberly-morris-20160612-story.html\">the Orlando Sentinel reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before that, she played basketball at Post University in Connecticut and worked as a drag king and bouncer at a gay club in Massachusetts, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Torrington-Woman-Among-Orlando-Massacre-Victims-Kimberly-KJ-Morris-382643021.html\">NBC Connecticut reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Justice was an accountant, living in downtown Orlando, who loved to eat and work out, The Associated Press reports. He woke his mother up shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, with a text message:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mommy I love you.\" Then: \"In club they shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mina Justice and her son exchanged messages for nearly an hour, the AP reports. Eddie Justice was trapped in a bathroom at Pulse as the hostage situation began. He asked his mother to call the police, telling her a man was shooting, lots of people were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has us,\" he told her. \"He's in the bathroom with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's a terror.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death was announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darryl Roman Burt II, 29\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt was a financial aid officer at Keiser University in Jacksonville, \u003ca href=\"http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-06-13/story/jacksonvilles-darryl-roman-burt-ii-among-orlandos-50-fatals-big\">the Florida Times-Union reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He always had a smile on his face and was a very nice guy. He definitely leaves an impression and had a big personality and he is missed,\" campus President Lisamarie Winslow told the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was known for his colorful bowties, reporter Jenna Bourne \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jennaANjax/status/742375031066525696\">has tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as Drayton's aunt \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1725031991093914&set=a.1436474006616382.1073741828.100007613897380&type=3&theater\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a> that Drayton had been at work when she was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melody Maia Monet, a nightclub photographer, posted a photo of Drayton (center) taken on Friday, a day before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[EddieJamoldroyJustice]\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=614293805301765&set=a.100314240033060.293.100001634520684&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laureanodisla, who studied at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan, Puerto Rico, performed in drag as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/alanis.laurell\">Alanis Laurell\u003c/a>. \"It is with deepest sorrow that we report that a member of the Drag community has lost their life due to the shooting at pulse night club in Orlando Florida,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Dragaroundtheworld/posts/1772753769677750\">states a Facebook post\u003c/a> from the community page Drag Around the World. \"Alanis Laurell was a[n] amazing performer and a beautiful person inside and out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154687030199199&set=a.489770909198.267853.508974198&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Puerto Rico, Laureanodisla studied education at the university, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/anthony.laureano.5\">a Facebook tribute page\u003c/a>. He moved to Orlando three years ago to \"pursue a career as a dancer and choreographer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-anthony-luis-laureanodisla-20160613-story.html\">according to the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a>. He'd gone dancing at Pulse with his roommates on Saturday, and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wjxt4heatherleigh/videos/491500247705252/\">family grew alarmed\u003c/a> when they didn't hear from him after he texted them at 2:07 a.m. ET. \"What I have now is a pain beyond repair,\" wrote cousin \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/lucasdaniel.acostadoleo/posts/10153528773207407?pnref=story\">Lucas Daniel Acosta D'oleo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154330002236320&set=a.476757651319.269200.665271319&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Puerto Rico, Perez had lived in the U.S. since he was a teenager and worked at an Orlando Perfumania store. \"One of the customers Perez charmed at the perfume shop was Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, who would become his longtime partner,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-jean-carlos-mendez-perez-20160613-story.html\">according to the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a>. Both were killed in the attack at the Pulse nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez \"was a man full of life and joy who loved his friends and family above all things,\" says a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/2952qqc\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a> set up by family members to raise money for his funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Puerto Rico, Velazquez worked at Forever 21 in Orlando and was a professional \u003ca href=\"http://www.prfdance.org/chorreao.htm\">Jíbaro\u003c/a> folk dancer, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2016/06/13/heres-everything-we-know-about-the-mass-shooting-at-orlandos-pulse-nightclub\">the Orlando Weekly\u003c/a>. A friend told the paper that Velazquez was with friends at Pulse, when \"he and others were pushed up against the wall by [Omar] Mateen, who started shooting at the group.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My brother will never die,\" his sister \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sheila.dejesus.77/posts/10154912804260898?pnref=story\">wrote on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"He will be in my heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amanda Alvear, 25 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvear had gone to Pulse with her friend Mercedez Marisol Flores, and was among those who took refuge in a bathroom during the attack. Alvear \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snapchat-video-captures-shots-ringing-orlando-club-article-1.2671782\">posted\u003c/a> a Snapchat video that documented the first moments of gunfire erupting at the club. Both she and Flores were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older brother Brian Alvear \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-victim-amanda-alvear-20160613-story.html\">told the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a> that his sister had spent the first part of the weekend shopping with his young daughters – \"She liked to make them look very good.\" Amanda, who wanted to be a nurse, \"wouldn't want anyone to spread hate for her,\" he told the newspaper. \"She'd rather they spread more love, keep friends and family close, and have a good time doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin Benitez Torres, 33 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154329908304180&set=a.10150261266074180.374285.763989179&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, a student at Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez in San Juan, Puerto Rico, had gone to Orlando to spend time with family. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mbenitezvgi\">He posted\u003c/a> Facebook videos and photos sharing scenes from his holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-martin-benitez-torres-20160613-story.html\">Orlando Sentinel reports\u003c/a> that he was among several students from his school who were killed in the Pulse attack. \"I can't believe it that my cousin is gone too soon. Going to miss that big smile always happy,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1318925464787648&set=a.614748911871977.1073741827.100000106210938&type=3&theater\">wrote Sonia N. Crapps on Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am a good man,\" Torres wrote on his Facebook profile page, \"a fighter who gives everything without expecting anything in return, ready to fly high today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156786445945710&set=a.10151095711275710.781325.547705709&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson-Leon, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had gone to Pulse with his partner, Jean Carlos Mendez Perez. Both were shot and killed at the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two had met a decade ago, when Perez sold Wilson-Leon Cartier perfume at a Perfumania shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-jean-carlos-mendez-perez-20160613-story.html\">according to the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a>. They fell in love soon thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend in Pennsylvania, Daniel Gmys-Casiano, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/panzercub/posts/10154299423324529?pnref=story\">paid tribute to Wilson-Leon\u003c/a> on Facebook as \"a wonderful young man full of life, who endured countless days of bullying while growing up, by cruel people calling him all sorts of horrendous homophobic slurs. He was the first person on this earth I came out to, and he always protected and loved his friends. His strength and character was always an inspiration to all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1066319973410749&set=a.136302426412513.21126.100000982680815&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Queens, N.Y., Flores studied literature at Orlando's Valencia Community College and worked at Target, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mercedez.flores.9?pnref=story\">her Facebook memorial page\u003c/a>. She'd gone to the Pulse club with her friend Amanda Alvear. Both were killed in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I forgive the boy because I cannot take that hate in my life. My life is more important than hate,\" Flores' father, Cesar Flores, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wesh.com/national-news/shoting-victims-dancer-telemarketer-bouncer/40027262\">told reporters in Orlando\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His daughter \"had so many dreams,\" Flores said. \"We must all come together, we must all be at peace, we must all love each other, because this hatred cannot continue for the rest of our lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152496515578153&set=a.444827663152.221746.676963152&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xavier E. Serrano was a professional dancer and performed in shows for \u003cem>Disney Live!\u003c/em>. Matt Molandes, a friend of Serrano's, tells NPR that Serrano helped Molandes accept himself as a gay person. \"Coming from a place where I was ashamed to be gay, watching ... performers like Xavier helped me come out of my shell,\" he says. \"Xavier lived in his truth, he was always happy even on days he wasn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano leaves behind a young son.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=990647494323361&set=a.377906625597454.101809.100001343607146&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menendez, originally from Puerto Rico, had moved to Orlando and was working for Speedway convenience stores while he studied health care management at Ana G. Mendez University in Orlando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia Cruz, the aunt of another victim, Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, \u003ca href=\"http://m.heraldtribune.com/Top%20News/Who%20were%20the%20Orlando%20shooting%20victims?/http:%7C%7Cwww.heraldtribune.com%7Carticle%7C20160613%7Carticle%7C160619859\">told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune\u003c/a> that Menendez was best friends with her nephew and that the two had gone to the Pulse nightclub together on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208768061946471&set=a.2446788816666.139511.1460303125&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Aracena was partners with another victim of the shooting, Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez. According to a friend of both men, Norkis Fernandez-Valdez, the two had just purchased a home together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another friend, Yamil Caraballo, who says he had known Aracena for three years, tells NPR that he was always happy and willing to help others. \"He was a great man and loved the Lord with all his heart,\" Carabello recalls. \"He was amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1098652793490541&set=a.253192381369924.60783.100000374925112&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rios was on vacation in Orlando from Brooklyn, N.Y. In 2015, he enrolled at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, studying social work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the college, Richard Relkin, said in a press release, \"Sadly, his dreams were cut short by this senseless act of violence. The St. Francis College community mourns the loss of one of our own and offers prayers to his family and friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was in school, Rios worked at a restaurant at LaGuardia Airport. A co-worker remembered his sense of humor. \"He had so much joy in him and was so funny,\" Dorys Gonzalez wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/dorys.gonzalez3/posts/1191154960929203\">remembrance on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"He was such a good person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Honorato was married with three children. The family lived in the Orlando suburb of Apopka, F.L., and according to Facebook he and his brother, Jose Honorato, worked together at FajitaMex Mexican Catering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Honorato \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-families-orlando-nightclub-shooting-victims-20160612-story.html\">tells the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a> that his brother had gone to Pulse nightclub with three friends, and that all three of them had made it home safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known to his friends as \"Javi\", Javier Jorge-Reyes was originally from Puerto Rico. Jose Diaz, a friend of the victim, \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-javier-jorge-reyes-20160613-story.html\">tells the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a> that Jorge-Reyes was a salesman at a Gucci store at a mall in Orlando, and that his outgoing personality made Jorge-Reyes good at his job. \"He was always positive,\" Diaz tells the Sentinel. \"He was very humble. He was a lovely friend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1762838883949182&set=a.1379392065627201.1073741827.100006692614364&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josaphat, still in his teens, is the second-youngest identified victim in the Pulse shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like many 19-year-olds, Jason Benjamin Josaphat had many interests and was just starting to chart his path in life, according to his family — he was computer savvy, loved to work out and had an interest in photography,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-jason-benjamin-josaphat-20160613-story.html\">the Orlando Sentinel wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orlando native had recently graduated from high school and started college classes, Josephat's uncle Christopher Long told the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was always helpful, always willing to help someone in need,\" Josephat's aunt, Josette Desile, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephat called his mother from the club after the shooting began, and stayed on the line with her as she called 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said she heard the shots getting closer,\" Desile said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cory James Connell, 21\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=870064503058852&set=a.283764158355559.65696.100001659322051&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell, a student at Valencia Community College, hoped to become a firefighter, his father James told CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell was at Pulse with his girlfriend, who was also shot in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cory's a good guy,\" James Connell \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/us/orlando-victims-profiles/\">told CNN\u003c/a> after the attack, before the family had learned of his fate. \"He loves everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Facebook, Cory Connell's brother Ryan \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208887470931482&set=a.1473846533578.62180.1456135461&type=3&theater\">called him\u003c/a> \"the superhero of our family.\" \"God just got the best of angels,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153012266909014&set=a.435201884013.223847.654624013&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis Daniel Conde, 39\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203931787028627&set=a.1484990278310.2065186.1040464476&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partners Conde and Velazquez were together at Pulse when they were shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Se fueron juntos como la pareja que son,\" Facebook user Pipo Pere \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pipo.pere/posts/10156965782440720\">wrote\u003c/a> — meaning \"they left together like the couple that they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Facebook user, Tulio Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AJPhotographyEvents1/posts/10153667085989290?comment_id=10153667253094290&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D\">recalled them\u003c/a> as \"two extraordinary human beings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conde and Velazquez owned a salon and spa together, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/the-victims-family-friends-recount-details-of-the-lives-of-those-killed-in/2281450\">the Tampa Bay Times reports\u003c/a>, and had been business partners for a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were both exceptional people,\" Conde's sister Lynette Conde told the paper. \"They were always helping each other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153097437045756&set=a.428671645755.221373.671900755&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Camuy worked on the show \u003cem>La Voz Kids, \u003c/em>produced in Orlando for Telemundo, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Telemundo-Employee-Reportedly-Among-Those-Killed-In-Orlando-Mass-Shooting-382639531.html\">NBC Miami reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=39a7142e70b3a806181f155ac&id=45c49482b2\">National Association of Hispanic Journalists\u003c/a>, according to president Mekhlo Medina. He'd joined the journalism association as a student in Puerto Rico before moving to Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Leinonen drove to Pulse at 4 a.m., after she heard there was a shooting, the Associated Press reports. Her son, Christopher Andrew Leinonen, had been at the club — and after the attack his friends had posted online that they didn't know where he was\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stood on the street, sobbing, begging for word of her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are nonsensical killings of our children,\" she said. \"They're killing our babies!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine's emotional appeal for news of her son aired on TVs around the nation. She said she was proud of Christopher, \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-man-missing-orlando-club-shooting-breaks-awaits/story?id=39794076\">she told ABC News\u003c/a>, saying he won a humanitarian award for founding the gay-straight alliance at his high school. She begged for the world to \"try to get rid of the hatred and the violence, please!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday the confirmation came: Leinonen died in the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nightclub photographer Melody Maia Monet shared a photo on Instagram of Leinonen and his boyfriend Juan Ramon Guerrero, who also died in the attack. She took the photo at a different nightclub on Friday, just one day before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am haunted that I may have taken the last photo of them together,\" she wrote. \"They were so beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ChristopherAndrewLeinonen]\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Frank Hernandez, 27\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1104134739658904&set=a.101884313217290.2980.100001871647509&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His family called him Frankie. Frank Hernandez was at Pulse nightclub in Orlando with his boyfriend when the shooting began. \u003ca href=\"http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article83453562.html\">According to the Miami Herald\u003c/a>, by the time Hernandez's teenage sister, Julissa Leal, made the 12 hour drive to Orlando from their childhood home in Louisiana, Hernandez was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want to say it, I don't even want to believe it,\" Leal writes on Facebook. \"I don't understand why he had to be one of the many victims who didn't make it. Why did it have to be him of all people. They took my big brother away from me, they took him away from us.\"\u003cstrong>\u003cbr> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=821807221270755&set=a.117288735055944.18495.100003244557251&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomlinson was a lead singer in a cover band called Frequency. 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Gonzalez-Cruz, 22\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207764110794695&set=a.1525104841518.2074999.1051549758&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Ommy Gonzalez-Cruz went by \"Ommy,\" his aunt \u003ca href=\"http://m.heraldtribune.com/Top%20News/Who%20were%20the%20Orlando%20shooting%20victims?/http:%7C%7Cwww.heraldtribune.com%7Carticle%7C20160613%7Carticle%7C160619859\">told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Peter makes a difference everywhere he goes. He was a happy person,\" Sonia Cruz told the paper. \"If Peter is not at the party, no one wants to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzelez-Cruz went to Pulse with his best friend, Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menendez also died in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=929117230486668&set=a.103353366396396.4251.100001651991333&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omar Capo was a passionate dancer, according to remembrances being left for him online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"May the only time you rest,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1635818470071966&set=a.1392639774389838.1073741832.100009314864912&type=3&theater\">Tamandra Diaz wrote\u003c/a>, be after you \"make some kick ass choreo up in paradise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His friend Julius Ortiz was with him at Pulse, but left shortly before the shooting. Ortiz told NPR's Ari Shapiro that after the shooting began, he sent Capo text after text after text, trying to reach him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also remembered Capo helping him out when he was in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was in a very hard situation — because with my dad, I was staying with him and he kicked me out — he actually took me in for a little,\" Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kimberly Morris, 37\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100316379913970&set=a.570460116250.2098152.5902286&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly \"KJ\" Morris was a bouncer at Pulse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved to Orlando this spring, from Hawaii, in order to help her mother and grandmother, \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/orlando-nightclub-shooting-kimberly-morris-20160612-story.html\">the Orlando Sentinel reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before that, she played basketball at Post University in Connecticut and worked as a drag king and bouncer at a gay club in Massachusetts, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Torrington-Woman-Among-Orlando-Massacre-Victims-Kimberly-KJ-Morris-382643021.html\">NBC Connecticut reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eddie Justice was an accountant, living in downtown Orlando, who loved to eat and work out, The Associated Press reports. He woke his mother up shortly after 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, with a text message:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mommy I love you.\" Then: \"In club they shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mina Justice and her son exchanged messages for nearly an hour, the AP reports. Eddie Justice was trapped in a bathroom at Pulse as the hostage situation began. He asked his mother to call the police, telling her a man was shooting, lots of people were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has us,\" he told her. \"He's in the bathroom with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's a terror.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death was announced Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Darryl Roman Burt II, 29\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burt was a financial aid officer at Keiser University in Jacksonville, \u003ca href=\"http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2016-06-13/story/jacksonvilles-darryl-roman-burt-ii-among-orlandos-50-fatals-big\">the Florida Times-Union reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He always had a smile on his face and was a very nice guy. He definitely leaves an impression and had a big personality and he is missed,\" campus President Lisamarie Winslow told the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was known for his colorful bowties, reporter Jenna Bourne \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jennaANjax/status/742375031066525696\">has tweeted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as Drayton's aunt \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1725031991093914&set=a.1436474006616382.1073741828.100007613897380&type=3&theater\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a> that Drayton had been at work when she was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melody Maia Monet, a nightclub photographer, posted a photo of Drayton (center) taken on Friday, a day before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[EddieJamoldroyJustice]\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=614293805301765&set=a.100314240033060.293.100001634520684&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laureanodisla, who studied at the University of the Sacred Heart in San Juan, Puerto Rico, performed in drag as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/alanis.laurell\">Alanis Laurell\u003c/a>. \"It is with deepest sorrow that we report that a member of the Drag community has lost their life due to the shooting at pulse night club in Orlando Florida,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Dragaroundtheworld/posts/1772753769677750\">states a Facebook post\u003c/a> from the community page Drag Around the World. \"Alanis Laurell was a[n] amazing performer and a beautiful person inside and out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154687030199199&set=a.489770909198.267853.508974198&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Puerto Rico, Laureanodisla studied education at the university, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/anthony.laureano.5\">a Facebook tribute page\u003c/a>. He moved to Orlando three years ago to \"pursue a career as a dancer and choreographer,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-anthony-luis-laureanodisla-20160613-story.html\">according to the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a>. He'd gone dancing at Pulse with his roommates on Saturday, and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/wjxt4heatherleigh/videos/491500247705252/\">family grew alarmed\u003c/a> when they didn't hear from him after he texted them at 2:07 a.m. ET. \"What I have now is a pain beyond repair,\" wrote cousin \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/lucasdaniel.acostadoleo/posts/10153528773207407?pnref=story\">Lucas Daniel Acosta D'oleo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154330002236320&set=a.476757651319.269200.665271319&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Puerto Rico, Perez had lived in the U.S. since he was a teenager and worked at an Orlando Perfumania store. \"One of the customers Perez charmed at the perfume shop was Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, who would become his longtime partner,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-jean-carlos-mendez-perez-20160613-story.html\">according to the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a>. Both were killed in the attack at the Pulse nightclub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez \"was a man full of life and joy who loved his friends and family above all things,\" says a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/2952qqc\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a> set up by family members to raise money for his funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Puerto Rico, Velazquez worked at Forever 21 in Orlando and was a professional \u003ca href=\"http://www.prfdance.org/chorreao.htm\">Jíbaro\u003c/a> folk dancer, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2016/06/13/heres-everything-we-know-about-the-mass-shooting-at-orlandos-pulse-nightclub\">the Orlando Weekly\u003c/a>. A friend told the paper that Velazquez was with friends at Pulse, when \"he and others were pushed up against the wall by [Omar] Mateen, who started shooting at the group.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My brother will never die,\" his sister \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sheila.dejesus.77/posts/10154912804260898?pnref=story\">wrote on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"He will be in my heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amanda Alvear, 25 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvear had gone to Pulse with her friend Mercedez Marisol Flores, and was among those who took refuge in a bathroom during the attack. Alvear \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/snapchat-video-captures-shots-ringing-orlando-club-article-1.2671782\">posted\u003c/a> a Snapchat video that documented the first moments of gunfire erupting at the club. Both she and Flores were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older brother Brian Alvear \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-victim-amanda-alvear-20160613-story.html\">told the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a> that his sister had spent the first part of the weekend shopping with his young daughters – \"She liked to make them look very good.\" Amanda, who wanted to be a nurse, \"wouldn't want anyone to spread hate for her,\" he told the newspaper. \"She'd rather they spread more love, keep friends and family close, and have a good time doing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Martin Benitez Torres, 33 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154329908304180&set=a.10150261266074180.374285.763989179&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, a student at Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez in San Juan, Puerto Rico, had gone to Orlando to spend time with family. \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mbenitezvgi\">He posted\u003c/a> Facebook videos and photos sharing scenes from his holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-martin-benitez-torres-20160613-story.html\">Orlando Sentinel reports\u003c/a> that he was among several students from his school who were killed in the Pulse attack. \"I can't believe it that my cousin is gone too soon. Going to miss that big smile always happy,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1318925464787648&set=a.614748911871977.1073741827.100000106210938&type=3&theater\">wrote Sonia N. Crapps on Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am a good man,\" Torres wrote on his Facebook profile page, \"a fighter who gives everything without expecting anything in return, ready to fly high today.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156786445945710&set=a.10151095711275710.781325.547705709&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson-Leon, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had gone to Pulse with his partner, Jean Carlos Mendez Perez. Both were shot and killed at the club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two had met a decade ago, when Perez sold Wilson-Leon Cartier perfume at a Perfumania shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-jean-carlos-mendez-perez-20160613-story.html\">according to the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a>. They fell in love soon thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend in Pennsylvania, Daniel Gmys-Casiano, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/panzercub/posts/10154299423324529?pnref=story\">paid tribute to Wilson-Leon\u003c/a> on Facebook as \"a wonderful young man full of life, who endured countless days of bullying while growing up, by cruel people calling him all sorts of horrendous homophobic slurs. He was the first person on this earth I came out to, and he always protected and loved his friends. His strength and character was always an inspiration to all of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1066319973410749&set=a.136302426412513.21126.100000982680815&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally from Queens, N.Y., Flores studied literature at Orlando's Valencia Community College and worked at Target, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mercedez.flores.9?pnref=story\">her Facebook memorial page\u003c/a>. She'd gone to the Pulse club with her friend Amanda Alvear. Both were killed in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I forgive the boy because I cannot take that hate in my life. My life is more important than hate,\" Flores' father, Cesar Flores, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wesh.com/national-news/shoting-victims-dancer-telemarketer-bouncer/40027262\">told reporters in Orlando\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His daughter \"had so many dreams,\" Flores said. \"We must all come together, we must all be at peace, we must all love each other, because this hatred cannot continue for the rest of our lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152496515578153&set=a.444827663152.221746.676963152&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xavier E. Serrano was a professional dancer and performed in shows for \u003cem>Disney Live!\u003c/em>. Matt Molandes, a friend of Serrano's, tells NPR that Serrano helped Molandes accept himself as a gay person. \"Coming from a place where I was ashamed to be gay, watching ... performers like Xavier helped me come out of my shell,\" he says. \"Xavier lived in his truth, he was always happy even on days he wasn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano leaves behind a young son.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=990647494323361&set=a.377906625597454.101809.100001343607146&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menendez, originally from Puerto Rico, had moved to Orlando and was working for Speedway convenience stores while he studied health care management at Ana G. Mendez University in Orlando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia Cruz, the aunt of another victim, Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, \u003ca href=\"http://m.heraldtribune.com/Top%20News/Who%20were%20the%20Orlando%20shooting%20victims?/http:%7C%7Cwww.heraldtribune.com%7Carticle%7C20160613%7Carticle%7C160619859\">told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune\u003c/a> that Menendez was best friends with her nephew and that the two had gone to the Pulse nightclub together on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208768061946471&set=a.2446788816666.139511.1460303125&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oscar Aracena was partners with another victim of the shooting, Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez. According to a friend of both men, Norkis Fernandez-Valdez, the two had just purchased a home together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another friend, Yamil Caraballo, who says he had known Aracena for three years, tells NPR that he was always happy and willing to help others. \"He was a great man and loved the Lord with all his heart,\" Carabello recalls. \"He was amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1098652793490541&set=a.253192381369924.60783.100000374925112&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rios was on vacation in Orlando from Brooklyn, N.Y. In 2015, he enrolled at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, studying social work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the college, Richard Relkin, said in a press release, \"Sadly, his dreams were cut short by this senseless act of violence. The St. Francis College community mourns the loss of one of our own and offers prayers to his family and friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was in school, Rios worked at a restaurant at LaGuardia Airport. A co-worker remembered his sense of humor. \"He had so much joy in him and was so funny,\" Dorys Gonzalez wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/dorys.gonzalez3/posts/1191154960929203\">remembrance on Facebook\u003c/a>. \"He was such a good person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miguel Honorato was married with three children. The family lived in the Orlando suburb of Apopka, F.L., and according to Facebook he and his brother, Jose Honorato, worked together at FajitaMex Mexican Catering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Honorato \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-families-orlando-nightclub-shooting-victims-20160612-story.html\">tells the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a> that his brother had gone to Pulse nightclub with three friends, and that all three of them had made it home safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known to his friends as \"Javi\", Javier Jorge-Reyes was originally from Puerto Rico. Jose Diaz, a friend of the victim, \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-javier-jorge-reyes-20160613-story.html\">tells the Orlando Sentinel\u003c/a> that Jorge-Reyes was a salesman at a Gucci store at a mall in Orlando, and that his outgoing personality made Jorge-Reyes good at his job. \"He was always positive,\" Diaz tells the Sentinel. \"He was very humble. He was a lovely friend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1762838883949182&set=a.1379392065627201.1073741827.100006692614364&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josaphat, still in his teens, is the second-youngest identified victim in the Pulse shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like many 19-year-olds, Jason Benjamin Josaphat had many interests and was just starting to chart his path in life, according to his family — he was computer savvy, loved to work out and had an interest in photography,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-jason-benjamin-josaphat-20160613-story.html\">the Orlando Sentinel wrote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Orlando native had recently graduated from high school and started college classes, Josephat's uncle Christopher Long told the newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was always helpful, always willing to help someone in need,\" Josephat's aunt, Josette Desile, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephat called his mother from the club after the shooting began, and stayed on the line with her as she called 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said she heard the shots getting closer,\" Desile said.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cory James Connell, 21\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=870064503058852&set=a.283764158355559.65696.100001659322051&type=3&theater\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell, a student at Valencia Community College, hoped to become a firefighter, his father James told CNN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connell was at Pulse with his girlfriend, who was also shot in the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cory's a good guy,\" James Connell \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/us/orlando-victims-profiles/\">told CNN\u003c/a> after the attack, before the family had learned of his fate. \"He loves everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Facebook, Cory Connell's brother Ryan \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208887470931482&set=a.1473846533578.62180.1456135461&type=3&theater\">called him\u003c/a> \"the superhero of our family.\" \"God just got the best of angels,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153012266909014&set=a.435201884013.223847.654624013&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luis Daniel Conde, 39\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203931787028627&set=a.1484990278310.2065186.1040464476&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partners Conde and Velazquez were together at Pulse when they were shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Se fueron juntos como la pareja que son,\" Facebook user Pipo Pere \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pipo.pere/posts/10156965782440720\">wrote\u003c/a> — meaning \"they left together like the couple that they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Facebook user, Tulio Lopez, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AJPhotographyEvents1/posts/10153667085989290?comment_id=10153667253094290&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D\">recalled them\u003c/a> as \"two extraordinary human beings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conde and Velazquez owned a salon and spa together, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/the-victims-family-friends-recount-details-of-the-lives-of-those-killed-in/2281450\">the Tampa Bay Times reports\u003c/a>, and had been business partners for a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were both exceptional people,\" Conde's sister Lynette Conde told the paper. \"They were always helping each other.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153097437045756&set=a.428671645755.221373.671900755&type=3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Camuy worked on the show \u003cem>La Voz Kids, \u003c/em>produced in Orlando for Telemundo, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Telemundo-Employee-Reportedly-Among-Those-Killed-In-Orlando-Mass-Shooting-382639531.html\">NBC Miami reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=39a7142e70b3a806181f155ac&id=45c49482b2\">National Association of Hispanic Journalists\u003c/a>, according to president Mekhlo Medina. He'd joined the journalism association as a student in Puerto Rico before moving to Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Leinonen drove to Pulse at 4 a.m., after she heard there was a shooting, the Associated Press reports. Her son, Christopher Andrew Leinonen, had been at the club — and after the attack his friends had posted online that they didn't know where he was\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stood on the street, sobbing, begging for word of her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are nonsensical killings of our children,\" she said. \"They're killing our babies!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine's emotional appeal for news of her son aired on TVs around the nation. 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"content": "\u003cp>LOS ANGELES -- Former California state Sen. Ron Calderon agreed to plead guilty Monday to mail fraud as part of a plea agreement in which he admitted to accepting bribes in exchange for supporting certain legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon, 58, agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud through the deprivation of honest services, according to a plea agreement filed in federal Los Angeles court. Prosecutors dropped more than 20 other charges in exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon is expected to enter the plea in court as early as Monday. He faces up to 20 years in prison at his yet-to-be-scheduled sentencing, though prosecutors said they would ask that he get no more than six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon had been set for trial next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney, Mark Geragos, didn't immediately return a call for comment Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Geragos previously told The Associated Press that the government's \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-calderon-plea-20160606-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">plea agreement last week with Calderon's brother\u003c/a>, former state Assemblyman Thomas Calderon, was an obvious effort to pressure his brother to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"WZjiEUjlrDeLyJHldPivgjRLhXt0tfms\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately this is the way the U.S. system of justice works,\" Geragos said. \"You are facing enormous consequences in terms of sentencing guidelines and the government makes you an offer that you can't refuse, so you will sing from their script in order to get your head out of the noose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Calderon, 62, pleaded guilty last week to a federal money laundering charge for allowing bribe money earmarked for his brother to be funneled through his firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-to-back plea agreements will settle the high-profile case that was filed in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public officials who engage in corrupt behavior threaten the basic fabric of our democracy,\" U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker said in a statement. \"The Calderons have acknowledged their roles in a bribery scheme in which money for them and their families alone was driving legislation that would have benefited only a few individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ron Calderon's plea agreement, he agreed to support legislation that the government says \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/03/ron-calderon/\" target=\"_blank\">helped a hospital owner maintain a long-running and massive health-care fraud scheme\u003c/a>. The law was repealed in 2013, and the hospital owner was prosecuted separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"gCa2hcBfgHScfA6tWpnWnJrCb3qCiAtg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, the hospital owner paid $30,000 to Calderon's son for three summers of work, according to the plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon also acknowledged taking money from an undercover FBI agent who posed as the owner of a Los Angeles movie studio and sought Calderon's help promoting an unsuccessful bill that would have expanded tax credits for the film industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange for supporting the bill, Calderon accepted $12,000 worth of trips to Las Vegas and a $25,000 payment to a bank account belonging to his brother's consulting company, according to the plea agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The undercover agent also paid Calderon's daughter $3,000 a month for work she didn't do and a $5,000 payment toward his son's college tuition, the plea agreement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My office will not tolerate pay-to-play corruption by public officials and their associates,\" Deirdre Fike, chief of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said in a statement. \"While in office, Ron Calderon and others profited handsomely when bribe money was accepted and laundered, and I'm gratified that he has chosen to take responsibility for his actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Mateen also pledged his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call during the attack, but officials said they haven't seen a direct link between the gunman and the terrorist group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack targeted Pulse Orlando, a gay nightclub that had been throwing a Latin Night dance party. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481811964/-that-could-have-been-me-a-change-of-plans-spared-these-orlando-residents?live=1\">In a report for NPR\u003c/a>, Eileen Holliday depicted the club as \"a longtime staple in the gay community\" that drew a wide-ranging audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timeline of the Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence began in the early hours of Sunday, June 12. Drawing from the police summary given Monday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after 2 a.m. ET, an Orlando police officer who was in uniform and working at Pulse responded to shots fired. The officer exchanged fire with the attacker near the entrance. More officers arrived; a second gun battle ensued and the gunman retreated into a bathroom, according to Orlando Police Chief John Mina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone get out of pulse and keep running,\" read a message posted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pulseorlando\">the club's Facebook account\u003c/a> at 2:09 a.m. But not everyone got out, and the attack became a hostage situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circumstances then became relatively stable, Mina said, adding that negotiators spoke to the gunman and that no gunfire was heard. Mateen was \"cool and calm when he was making those phone calls to us,\" Mina said. But the police chief added that the police were concerned the attacker might have had an explosive vest or another bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 5 a.m., police opted to force entry into the club by using an explosive to breach the exterior cinder-block wall of a bathroom full of people near a bathroom where Mateen had holed up. The decision was made out of concern that a \"further loss of life was imminent,\" Mina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10987793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/gettyimages-539749234_wide-9216c31501940b94358a05472144169cb3bc91af-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"FBI agents inspect the rear wall of the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where authorities say 49 victims died Sunday. The gunman, identified as Omar Mateen, was killed by police.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10987793\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents inspect the rear wall of the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where authorities say 49 victims died Sunday. The gunman, identified as Omar Mateen, was killed by police. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, Mateen was in a bathroom with 4-5 hostages, Mina said. He added that another 12-15 people are believed to have been in the adjacent bathroom. But the explosive breach didn't penetrate the wall completely, so an armored vehicle was also used to put a hole in the wall, and hostages began to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect came out of that hole himself,\" Mina said, and began firing at police. He was then killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando police say 11 officers were involved in that part of the operation, which they say rescued some 30 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Investigation, and the Weapons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police identified the gunman as Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida. A U.S. citizen, Mateen used an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun to carry out the attack, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agent with the field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Mateen legally purchased the firearms, acquiring them in the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI's Wysopal said Monday that some 100 leads have been generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing criminal investigation is in the early stages, said U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley. He added that other potential charges are possible, but officials don't currently believe there's an ongoing threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina Lombardo of the ATF said her agency traced the weapons and confirmed that their last purchaser was Mateen. She added that a third weapon, which was found in Mateen's vehicle, was still being traced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Suspect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen was born in New York and worked as a security guard. He was married and had a 3-year-old son, according to his father, who spoke to the media Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tampa FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Ronald Hopper, the FBI had investigated Mateen twice: In 2013, after he \"made inflammatory comments to coworkers alleging possible terrorist ties\" and in 2014 when the agency evaluated his possible ties to U.S. suicide bomber Moner Mohammad Abusalha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR reported yesterday, FBI agents \"determined the contact was 'minimal' and did not constitute a threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials who've been briefed on the attack have told NPR's Carrie Johnson that Mateen pledged his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's father has spoken publicly about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident,\" Seddique Mir Mateen told \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/terror-hate-what-motivated-orlando-nightclub-shooter-n590496\">NBC News\u003c/a> Sunday. \"We weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This had nothing to do with religion,\" The elder Mateen added. But he also described recent incidents in which his son had been angered by seeing men kissing each other in Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, addressed the media in Boulder, Colorado, saying her former husband was mentally unstable and \"would get mad out of nowhere.\" She said she left him with the help of her family, after he became physically abusive and controlling. Yusufiy also said Mateen had a history with steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cW1smw4lkc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Victims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Orlando is \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityoforlando.net/victims\">updating its public list\u003c/a> of those killed in the attack, pending notification of next of kin. As of Monday morning, more than half of the 49 clubgoers who lost their lives had been named; of those who have, their ages run from 20-50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando is operating a hotline for anyone seeking information about friends or loved ones -- the number is 407-246-4357.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR is working to provide information about those who lost their lives, on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481785763/heres-what-we-know-about-the-orlando-shooting-victims\">page devoted to the victims\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reactions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando residents and others lined up to donate blood Sunday. Dozens of vigils were planned for Sunday in Florida and beyond. LGBT pride events in Washington, D.C., included a remembrance. And in New York, people gathered at the legendary Stonewall Inn last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shocking loss of life in Orlando was also mentioned several times during \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/13/481801620/tony-awards-honors-florida-victims-hamilton-wins-11-categories\">last night's Tony Awards ceremony\u003c/a>, including one instance in which Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man behind the record-setting musical \u003cem>Hamilton\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thr/status/742157187892420608\">recited a sonnet\u003c/a> in response to the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/THR/status/742157187892420608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internationally, people in Belgium and Paris -- two places that recently saw brutal attacks on civilians -- paid their respects and showed their solidarity with Orlando. The Eiffel Tower will be lighted in rainbow colors tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.weareorlando.org/\">WeAreOrlando site\u003c/a> was set up to provide information about other events, as well as to promote a GoFundMe donation page that was set up by Equality Florida to help the victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer have declared states of emergency over the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481776539/obama-an-attack-on-any-american-is-an-attack-on-all-americans\">President Obama said\u003c/a> that \"although it's still early in the investigation, we know enough to say this was an act of terror and an act of hate. As Americans, we are united in grief, in outrage, and in resolve to defend our people.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One day after \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481744095/police-say-multiple-victims-after-shooting-at-orlando-nightclub\">a depraved attack on an Orlando, Florida, nightclub\u003c/a> left 49 victims dead and 53 more wounded, investigators are working to learn more about the man they say was the lone shooter: Omar Mateen, who was killed at the scene. The case is being treated as a terrorist investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being briefed on the case Monday, President Obama said, \"It appears that the shooter was inspired by various extremist information\" online; he added that \"all those materials\" are now being scrutinized and \"exploited.\" The president discussed the Orlando case in the Oval Office, in which he spoke for nearly 15 minutes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president added that investigators aren't seeing signs that Mateen was directed by ISIS, noting that the gunman pledged allegiance to the group at a late juncture. Comparing the attack to one that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/03/458277103/san-bernardino-shootings-what-we-know-one-day-after\">hit San Bernardino\u003c/a> last December, Obama called it \"homegrown extremism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families and friends of people who were in the Pulse nightclub have spent the past 24 hours trying to learn whether their loved ones survived, gathering in the street near the scene of the shooting. As of Monday morning, investigators said that 48 of the 49 victims had been identified, and that 24 families had been notified so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All victims have now been removed from the scene, and the process of reconstructing the events with forensics techniques is now beginning,\" Paul Wysopal, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Tampa division, said at a morning news conference in Orlando.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said Mateen, who had come under FBI scrutiny at least twice over potential links to terrorism, carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history with guns he had legally purchased in recent days. Mateen also pledged his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call during the attack, but officials said they haven't seen a direct link between the gunman and the terrorist group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attack targeted Pulse Orlando, a gay nightclub that had been throwing a Latin Night dance party. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/12/481811964/-that-could-have-been-me-a-change-of-plans-spared-these-orlando-residents?live=1\">In a report for NPR\u003c/a>, Eileen Holliday depicted the club as \"a longtime staple in the gay community\" that drew a wide-ranging audience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timeline of the Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence began in the early hours of Sunday, June 12. Drawing from the police summary given Monday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just after 2 a.m. ET, an Orlando police officer who was in uniform and working at Pulse responded to shots fired. The officer exchanged fire with the attacker near the entrance. More officers arrived; a second gun battle ensued and the gunman retreated into a bathroom, according to Orlando Police Chief John Mina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone get out of pulse and keep running,\" read a message posted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pulseorlando\">the club's Facebook account\u003c/a> at 2:09 a.m. But not everyone got out, and the attack became a hostage situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circumstances then became relatively stable, Mina said, adding that negotiators spoke to the gunman and that no gunfire was heard. Mateen was \"cool and calm when he was making those phone calls to us,\" Mina said. But the police chief added that the police were concerned the attacker might have had an explosive vest or another bomb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 5 a.m., police opted to force entry into the club by using an explosive to breach the exterior cinder-block wall of a bathroom full of people near a bathroom where Mateen had holed up. The decision was made out of concern that a \"further loss of life was imminent,\" Mina said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10987793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/gettyimages-539749234_wide-9216c31501940b94358a05472144169cb3bc91af-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"FBI agents inspect the rear wall of the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where authorities say 49 victims died Sunday. The gunman, identified as Omar Mateen, was killed by police.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10987793\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents inspect the rear wall of the Pulse Orlando nightclub in Orlando, Fla., where authorities say 49 victims died Sunday. The gunman, identified as Omar Mateen, was killed by police. \u003ccite>(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time, Mateen was in a bathroom with 4-5 hostages, Mina said. He added that another 12-15 people are believed to have been in the adjacent bathroom. But the explosive breach didn't penetrate the wall completely, so an armored vehicle was also used to put a hole in the wall, and hostages began to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The suspect came out of that hole himself,\" Mina said, and began firing at police. He was then killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orlando police say 11 officers were involved in that part of the operation, which they say rescued some 30 hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Investigation, and the Weapons\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police identified the gunman as Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, 29, of Fort Pierce, Florida. A U.S. citizen, Mateen used an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun to carry out the attack, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An agent with the field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Mateen legally purchased the firearms, acquiring them in the past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI's Wysopal said Monday that some 100 leads have been generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ongoing criminal investigation is in the early stages, said U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley. He added that other potential charges are possible, but officials don't currently believe there's an ongoing threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regina Lombardo of the ATF said her agency traced the weapons and confirmed that their last purchaser was Mateen. She added that a third weapon, which was found in Mateen's vehicle, was still being traced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Suspect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen was born in New York and worked as a security guard. He was married and had a 3-year-old son, according to his father, who spoke to the media Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tampa FBI Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Ronald Hopper, the FBI had investigated Mateen twice: In 2013, after he \"made inflammatory comments to coworkers alleging possible terrorist ties\" and in 2014 when the agency evaluated his possible ties to U.S. suicide bomber Moner Mohammad Abusalha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR reported yesterday, FBI agents \"determined the contact was 'minimal' and did not constitute a threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials who've been briefed on the attack have told NPR's Carrie Johnson that Mateen pledged his allegiance to ISIS in a 911 call before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's father has spoken publicly about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident,\" Seddique Mir Mateen told \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/orlando-nightclub-massacre/terror-hate-what-motivated-orlando-nightclub-shooter-n590496\">NBC News\u003c/a> Sunday. \"We weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This had nothing to do with religion,\" The elder Mateen added. But he also described recent incidents in which his son had been angered by seeing men kissing each other in Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateen's ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, addressed the media in Boulder, Colorado, saying her former husband was mentally unstable and \"would get mad out of nowhere.\" She said she left him with the help of her family, after he became physically abusive and controlling. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Yazmin Ortiz came inside from cross-country practice last fall, she saw an open locker. Inside was a pricey designer backpack that one of her classmates owned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was nobody [around] and I saw her bag,” says the Reedley High School senior. “I don’t know what I was thinking that made me turn around to grab her backpack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yazmin kept it at home for months. Then, at the beginning of January, she wore it to school. The owner called her out. Soon they were both in the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yazmin knew she was going to get in trouble, but she just wanted a way out. “I just started denying everything,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But finally, Yazmin told her parents what she had done. She felt guilty because her parents had worked hard to make her life better than theirs. They didn’t even get to finish middle school back in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268543254\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yazmin agreed to return the backpack. The other kid’s mother wanted to press charges. But Yazmin got lucky; the girl chose restorative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to sit in a conference room with her parents and my parents,” says Yazmin. “And sitting in there was, it was very difficult. I couldn’t even look them in the eye because I felt really ashamed of what I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accountability is a key part of restorative justice, a process where the offender apologizes to the victim through mediation. Yazmin not only had to admit she took the backpack, but she also had to repeat out loud the other girl’s version of the story. That’s a key part of the process, to make sure the victim is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also had to do 30 hours of community service. Her job? Volunteering at a local thrift store run by the Mennonites. It wasn’t a random assignment. The whole restorative justice program started in the Fresno County town because of a global relief organization there, the \u003ca href=\"http://mcc.org/learn/where/us/west-coast\">West Coast Mennonite Central Committee\u003c/a> (MCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10984933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"General Grant Middle School in Reedley also uses restorative justice. A mediator talks with kids and parents about a vandalism case. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10984933\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Grant Middle School in Reedley also uses restorative justice. A mediator talks with kids and parents about a vandalism case. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The MCC is known for its restorative justice work in other countries. Seven years, ago, when Reedley saw a spike in the homicide rate and more kids joining gangs, the West Coast MCC introduced the idea of restorative justice to the police department and the school district. School and police officials were so worried about skyrocketing expulsion and suspension rates and kids getting into trouble that they decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its more formal name is the \u003ca href=\"http://rpbi-reedley.org/\">Reedley Peace Building Initiative\u003c/a>. It’s specifically for kids who have committed minor crimes, misdemeanors like vandalism, fighting or stealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to create a whole new justice system. This is just in support of what we have,” says John Swenning, a former cop. He works for the West Coast MCC and he’s the town’s go-to guy for restorative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trained volunteers from the community mediate the cases. There are more than 70 volunteers who have signed up. Some of the most engaged volunteers come from Reedley’s First Mennonite Church and the Reedley Peace Center, which has its meetings on church grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Steve Penner says the idea of restorative justice is embedded in the church’s theology. “And we’re sort of naturally critics of the criminal justice system as it is and its retributive measures,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process keeps kids out of that system, says Penner. It means no court dates, no criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole restorative justice thing in Reedley has been good for us as peace people and police to find some common ground to work together because none of us want bad things to happen to youth and others in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that common ground that makes Reedley’s program successful, says Lt. Marc Ediger of the Reedley Police Department. “This is the perfect opportunity, I think, for the community to get involved and actually sit across the table from offenders and victims of crime so it’s not just the police department,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first heard about the program, he was worried it could be soft on crime. “But it’s not,” he says. “It’s taking ownership of what you’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike criminal court cases that must be tried in Fresno, restorative justice cases never leave Reedley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get a case, our goal is to have it in a mediator’s hands in 10 to 15 days,” says Ediger. “That’s the only system it visits at that point. That’s what’s really unique about it. It’s our own subsystem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ann Carousso, administrator of student services for the Kings Canyon Unified School District, originally thought the idea was nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought, ‘Are you crazy?’ This is a massive undertaking,” she says. “I couldn’t fathom how we were going to be able to rely on volunteers. Modern life is busy and fast-paced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The self-described “queen of discipline” also wondered whether restorative justice would be too soft on crime. But now she thinks the opposite. “You’re getting a lot more discipline with restorative justice: mediation, community service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids like Yazmin still get suspended, despite the fact that critics of the program say schools aren’t disciplining kids enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be consistent,” Swenning says. “We’ve found that it really helps the whole process that the rules of the school are still followed. It’s just after this suspension, we’re giving them the opportunity to make this right, to do something that’s right, to make changes in their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And suspensions have gone way down. Swenning is convinced it’s because kids are learning. About 260 kids have gone through Reedley’s program. Only about 9 percent have committed another crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yazmin Ortiz would agree with Carousso and Swenning. She says the hardest part of the whole restorative justice process was writing a letter of apology. In fact, her first effort failed miserably. She accused the girl of having a nasty attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t really nice in that letter because I was really angry,” Ortiz says. “It was a bad letter. I explained to her that it was her fault I took her bag!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she rewrote the letter. She knows she caught a break; she could have been arrested or ended up with a criminal record. The blame ultimately falls on her, she says, and she won’t steal again, even if there is a temptation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these kids don’t know what accountability is, being responsible for their actions,” says Swenning. “There have been many cases where the student has never told the parents exactly what’s going on until they get into mediation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Mennonites first came to Reedley in the early 1900s. The First Mennonite Church of Reedley was their first meeting house. \" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10985464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-800x675.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-400x338.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-1180x996.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-960x810.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mennonites first came to Reedley in the early 1900s. The First Mennonite Church of Reedley was their first meeting house.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Reedley Peace Building Initiative isn’t just about the offenders. Victims are expected to learn something, too. And it can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Guillermo Cruz. Last fall, a kid at school jumped him, beat him up. Cruz had never even met him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he was trying to like impress his friends or something,” says Cruz. “After he like punched me, I was mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His gut feeling was to retaliate, but then Swenning suggested mediation. So he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, it didn’t go well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillermo didn’t think the other kid was being honest. But Guillermo, Swenning and the parents of both boys called him on it. Eventually, the kid relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like we both talked with each other. He even like gave me a letter to apologize,” he says. It was a weird experience, he adds, because he’d never gotten an apology from someone after a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other boy declined being interviewed for this story. He was expelled. But because of restorative justice, he had the chance to come back to Reedley High. Guillermo says things aren’t perfect between them, but at least they’re OK. They haven’t gotten into a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Guillermo knows it could have escalated into something really violent. He’s grown up around a gang in his neighborhood. Some of his friends have been shot or are in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he says, he really doesn’t want his life to go that way, and restorative justice has given him a different perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to be in prison for like the rest of my life,” Guillermo says. “I’d rather be like good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the temptations are still there. A couple weeks ago, Guillermo got caught up in a group fight at a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, John Swenning and others say they’ll be watching out for him, pushing him to go to community college in the fall. Adults involved in the program also have to be accountable, says Swenning. Guillermo’s a good kid, he says. He just needs some added support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that kind of commitment that has put Reedley’s program on the map -- so much so that other cities, big and small, are now trying to emulate it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I couldn’t even look them in the eye because I felt really ashamed of what I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accountability is a key part of restorative justice, a process where the offender apologizes to the victim through mediation. Yazmin not only had to admit she took the backpack, but she also had to repeat out loud the other girl’s version of the story. That’s a key part of the process, to make sure the victim is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also had to do 30 hours of community service. Her job? Volunteering at a local thrift store run by the Mennonites. It wasn’t a random assignment. The whole restorative justice program started in the Fresno County town because of a global relief organization there, the \u003ca href=\"http://mcc.org/learn/where/us/west-coast\">West Coast Mennonite Central Committee\u003c/a> (MCC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10984933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"General Grant Middle School in Reedley also uses restorative justice. A mediator talks with kids and parents about a vandalism case. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10984933\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_5303-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">General Grant Middle School in Reedley also uses restorative justice. A mediator talks with kids and parents about a vandalism case. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The MCC is known for its restorative justice work in other countries. Seven years, ago, when Reedley saw a spike in the homicide rate and more kids joining gangs, the West Coast MCC introduced the idea of restorative justice to the police department and the school district. School and police officials were so worried about skyrocketing expulsion and suspension rates and kids getting into trouble that they decided to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its more formal name is the \u003ca href=\"http://rpbi-reedley.org/\">Reedley Peace Building Initiative\u003c/a>. It’s specifically for kids who have committed minor crimes, misdemeanors like vandalism, fighting or stealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not trying to create a whole new justice system. This is just in support of what we have,” says John Swenning, a former cop. He works for the West Coast MCC and he’s the town’s go-to guy for restorative justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trained volunteers from the community mediate the cases. There are more than 70 volunteers who have signed up. Some of the most engaged volunteers come from Reedley’s First Mennonite Church and the Reedley Peace Center, which has its meetings on church grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pastor Steve Penner says the idea of restorative justice is embedded in the church’s theology. “And we’re sort of naturally critics of the criminal justice system as it is and its retributive measures,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process keeps kids out of that system, says Penner. It means no court dates, no criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole restorative justice thing in Reedley has been good for us as peace people and police to find some common ground to work together because none of us want bad things to happen to youth and others in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s that common ground that makes Reedley’s program successful, says Lt. Marc Ediger of the Reedley Police Department. “This is the perfect opportunity, I think, for the community to get involved and actually sit across the table from offenders and victims of crime so it’s not just the police department,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first heard about the program, he was worried it could be soft on crime. “But it’s not,” he says. “It’s taking ownership of what you’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike criminal court cases that must be tried in Fresno, restorative justice cases never leave Reedley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we get a case, our goal is to have it in a mediator’s hands in 10 to 15 days,” says Ediger. “That’s the only system it visits at that point. That’s what’s really unique about it. It’s our own subsystem.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Ann Carousso, administrator of student services for the Kings Canyon Unified School District, originally thought the idea was nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I thought, ‘Are you crazy?’ This is a massive undertaking,” she says. “I couldn’t fathom how we were going to be able to rely on volunteers. Modern life is busy and fast-paced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The self-described “queen of discipline” also wondered whether restorative justice would be too soft on crime. But now she thinks the opposite. “You’re getting a lot more discipline with restorative justice: mediation, community service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And kids like Yazmin still get suspended, despite the fact that critics of the program say schools aren’t disciplining kids enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be consistent,” Swenning says. “We’ve found that it really helps the whole process that the rules of the school are still followed. It’s just after this suspension, we’re giving them the opportunity to make this right, to do something that’s right, to make changes in their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And suspensions have gone way down. Swenning is convinced it’s because kids are learning. About 260 kids have gone through Reedley’s program. Only about 9 percent have committed another crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yazmin Ortiz would agree with Carousso and Swenning. She says the hardest part of the whole restorative justice process was writing a letter of apology. In fact, her first effort failed miserably. She accused the girl of having a nasty attitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wasn’t really nice in that letter because I was really angry,” Ortiz says. “It was a bad letter. I explained to her that it was her fault I took her bag!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she rewrote the letter. She knows she caught a break; she could have been arrested or ended up with a criminal record. The blame ultimately falls on her, she says, and she won’t steal again, even if there is a temptation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these kids don’t know what accountability is, being responsible for their actions,” says Swenning. “There have been many cases where the student has never told the parents exactly what’s going on until they get into mediation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10985464\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/19779_transform-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Mennonites first came to Reedley in the early 1900s. 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And it can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Guillermo Cruz. Last fall, a kid at school jumped him, beat him up. Cruz had never even met him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think he was trying to like impress his friends or something,” says Cruz. “After he like punched me, I was mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His gut feeling was to retaliate, but then Swenning suggested mediation. So he took a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, it didn’t go well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillermo didn’t think the other kid was being honest. But Guillermo, Swenning and the parents of both boys called him on it. Eventually, the kid relented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like we both talked with each other. He even like gave me a letter to apologize,” he says. It was a weird experience, he adds, because he’d never gotten an apology from someone after a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other boy declined being interviewed for this story. He was expelled. 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Police now say that was \"a misstatement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SANTA MONICA -- An Indiana man armed with three assault rifles and chemicals used to make explosives was arrested in Southern California on Sunday and told police he was headed to a gay pride parade -- an event that annually draws hundreds of thousands of people, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The early morning arrest in Santa Monica of James Wesley Howell, 20, came just a few hours after at least 50 people were shot and killed in a gay nightclub in Orlando Florida, though authorities said they had found no evidence of a connection between the suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents called police to report suspicious behavior from Howell, who was parked facing the wrong way in a white sedan, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers arrived they saw an assault rifle sitting in Howell's passenger seat, Santa Monica police Lt. 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They found two more assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and ammunition and a five-gallon bucket with chemicals that could be used to make an explosive device, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks had initially tweeted that Howell told officers he wanted to do harm at the gay pride event, but she later said that tweet was inaccurate, and that Howell only said he was going to the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[As reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-gay-pride-la-weapons-20160612-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lt. Saul Rodriguez said later the tweet was a misstatement. He said the suspect told investigators that he was going to the Pride festival but said he did not make additional statements about his intentions. \"It was a misstatement,\" Rodriguez said. \"Unfortunately, she was given incorrect information initially, which indicated that that statement was made; however, that statement never was made. He did indicate that he was planning on going to the Pride festival but beyond anything as far as motives or his intentions that statement was never made nor did any officer receive that statement.\"]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The huge parade and festival known as LA Pride took place later in the day about seven miles away in West Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"N7XY17hL4iE5mcL3VMimUmwt4P9cYjry\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities would answer no further questions on Howell or his motives. The FBI has taken over the lead of the investigation from the local police. Indiana State Police Capt. 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