She was a really good person.”īoth women posted on Snapchat from the nightclub before the shooting.įlores’ family spent hours waiting at Orlando Regional Medical Center, then a staging area at a nearby hotel.
“She was loving, she was caring, she always had an open ear, she always wanted to help people,” Marte said of his friend Alvear. She had lost a lot of weight following gastric bypass surgery and Marte encouraged her to socialize and enjoy life. Marte said he was trying to comfort her after the breakup. She wanted to become a party planner so she could coordinate events with her two older brothers, who are both DJs.Īlvear, 25, had bonded with friend Sandy Marte over breakups and health problems. She worked at Target and studied at Valencia College, a local community college. They used to always meet up at Pulse.”īorn in Queens, New York, the 26-year-old Flores moved to Florida when she was a child, her sister-in-law said. “She was very outgoing,” Nancy Flores said of Mercedez Flores.
