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Orlando releases names of 23 shooting victims

City to update details as families are notified

Jermaine Towns, left, and Brandon Shuford wait down the street from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. Towns said his brother was in the club at the time. A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, and multiple people have been wounded, police said Sunday. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

 (Phelan M. Ebenhack, AP)

ORLANDO, Fla. — The City of Orlando has released names and ages of victims of the nightclub shooting whose next of kin have been contacted. The list will be periodically updated onwww.cityoforlando.net/blog/victims/ as those who died are identified and families and loved ones notified. The city gave no additional information other than the names.

—Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34

— Stanley Almodovar III, 23

— Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20

— Juan Ramon Guerroro, 22

— Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36

— Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22

— Luis S. Vielma, 22

— Kimberly Morris, 37

— Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30

— Darryl Roman Burt II, 29

_Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32

_Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21

_Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25

_Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35

_Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50

— Amanda Alvear, 25

— Martin Benitez Torres, 33

— Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37

— Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26

— Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35

— Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25

— Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31

— Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26

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