Requiem: Stories from Orlando

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Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Requiem: Stories from Orlando</h1>
                <h2><p>Some of the sadder stories from the terror attack in Orlando:

"'He's coming ... I'm gonna die': Heartbreaking final texts from Orlando victim to his mom," Washington Post.

"Frankie Hernandez: ' A really great big brother,'" Orlando Sentinel. The Sentinel</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Some of the sadder stories from the terror attack in Orlando:</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/13/hes-coming-im-gonna-die-heartbreaking-final-texts-from-orlando-victim-to-his-mom/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_eddiejustice_mm_6am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">"'He's coming ... I'm gonna die': Heartbreaking final texts from Orlando victim to his mom," </a>Washington Post.</p><p><a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/victims/os-orlando-mass-shooting-victim-frankie-hernandez-20160613-story.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">"Frankie Hernandez: ' A really great big brother,'"</a> Orlando Sentinel. The Sentinel is putting together stories about the victims <a href="http://&quot;Frankie Hernandez: ' A really great big brother,'&quot; Orlando Sentinel. A family tries to hold together.">here</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/orlando-shooting-victims-updates.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">"Anguish in Orlando as families wait for updates on shooting victims,"</a> New York Times. With the families.</p><p>And on a weekend that also saw <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-shooting-idUSKCN0YX046?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">the shooting death </a>of pop singer Christina Grimmie in Orlando, there is also this:</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">"Compare these gun death rates: The U.S. is in a different world," </a>New York Times. From the story: "In Germany, being murdered with a gun is as uncommon as being killed by a falling object in the United States."</p>
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Some of the sadder stories from the terror attack in Orlando:

"'He's coming ... I'm gonna die': Heartbreaking final texts from Orlando victim to his mom," Washington Post.

"Frankie Hernandez: ' A really great big brother,'" Orlando Sentinel. The Sentinel is putting together stories about the victims here.

"Anguish in Orlando as families wait for updates on shooting victims," New York Times. With the families.

And on a weekend that also saw the shooting death of pop singer Christina Grimmie in Orlando, there is also this:

"Compare these gun death rates: The U.S. is in a different world," New York Times. From the story: "In Germany, being murdered with a gun is as uncommon as being killed by a falling object in the United States."

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi