Police publish names of Orlando shooting victims

A day before the Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre, Luis Vielma, 22, updated his Facebook profile with a picture of himself standing with young people in front of a Disney castle and a caption that read: “True friends who become family.”
Police publish names of Orlando shooting victims

By Sunday night, his profile had been altered to ‘Remember Luis Vielma’ after police confirmed he was among the dead in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.

As authorities frantically tried to notify all the relatives, the Orlando Police Department began publishing the names of victims on a city website.

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