Most of the victims died at the scene, and nine almost immediately after arriving at Orlando Regional Medical Center, where the majority of the fifty-three wounded were treated. In the very early morning on Sunday, June 12th, Omar Mateen, a twenty-nine-year-old Afghan-American, killed forty-nine people during Latin Night at Pulse, a gay night club in downtown Orlando. It is a grim kind of luck that the deadliest shooting in American history should have happened two blocks from a Level 1 trauma center. PHOTOGRAPH BY DENIS DARZAEQ / AGENCE VU / REDUX The Orlando shooting suddenly exposed the fragile lives of a community whose members often battle with their multiple identities.
