Vielma worked on the former Disaster! attraction and he recently began working on the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride. "A funny, sweet, nerdy guy without a mean side. He "was always a friend you could call" and was "always open and available," co-worker Josh Boesch told the Orlando Sentinel. Vielma worked as an attraction operator at the Universal Orlando theme park and had aspirations of becoming an EMT. His cousins wrote short messages of mourning on Twitter including "Rest in peace to my wonderful cousin" and "May you rest easy in Heaven." The 22-year-old victim, known as Peter Ommy by his friends and family, worked for UPS in Orlando. "We have seven friends who were there, and already we know three are dead." Ortiz-Rivera moved from Puerto Rico to Florida to seek a better life. The house-warming party on Saturday moved onto the Pulse nightclub to celebrate on Latin Night. "The only reason he went was because there was a house-warming party for our friend." "I am really in shock that he was in the club, because he was not usually a club scene person," Gomez told the Orlando Sentinel. Let's try to get rid of the hatred and the violence, please."Ībismel Colon Gomez, a former roommate of 36-year-old Ortiz-Rivera, said she was surprised Ortiz-Rivera went out. We're on this Earth for such a short time. "I've been so proud of him for that," his mother said. Leinonen's mother, Christine Leinonen, said her son was a gay-rights activist who started a gay-straight alliance group during high school and recently won the Anne Frank Humanitarian Award for his work in the gay community.