“For a lot of us in the broader LGBT community, it did feel really personal,” says Gannaway of the shooting. Over the course of the last year, Kali met Preston Gannaway, a photographer who has been documenting the stories of queer youth across the country, including those recovering from the Pulse attack. “It’s like you are starting all over again.” “The healing process has been hard,” Kali says. After three different surgeries and physical therapy three times a week, she can finally move her fingers and pick up small objects again-she says she has about half the strength she had before the shooting. “This past year has been the hardest year of my life,” Kali says. Omar, just 20, became one of the youngest people killed.
Kali, who visiting the club for the first time, was shot in her back and her arm. That night out was June 12, 2016, the same night Omar Mateen entered Pulse nightclub with a handgun and semi-automatic rifle and began firing, killing 49 people and injuring 53 in what became the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. “He always said to live life to the fullest.”Ī snapchat selfie of Kaliesha Andino (left) with Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo on June 12, 2016. “He always wanted the people around him to be happy,” she says. Andino-who goes by Kali-first met Omar in middle school in Cleveland, Ohio. Omar had recently moved to Orlando from Nashville and was working as a Starbucks barista as he pursued his dream of becoming a dancer.
Photographs by PRESTON GANNAWAY / Text by CHARLOTTE ALTERĪlmost exactly a year ago, Kaliesha Andino and her childhood friend Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo went out on the town. history, one young victim tries to heal from her physical scars and the loss of a childhood friend Following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S.
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