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Please donate to the Kim Morris memorial fund.

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On Sunday morning, Kim Morris, and 49 others lost their lives. Kim (or KJ as her friends called her), was working as a bouncer at Pulse in Orlando, Florida. She was originally from Torrington, CT. I knew her from Teikyo Post University in Waterbury, CT. She was a senior when I was a freshman. While I didn't know her personally, I saw her around campus a lot. She was well-liked. My best friend knew her. My best friend said that KJ was an amazing person to know, and that she helped her acclimate to college life. When my best friend told me that KJ was among the casualties in this massacre, I felt my heart fall into my stomach. I was angry, I was sick, I wanted to trash the f*cking room I was in. I was already heated by the massacre because this happened to a community that I am a part of, but to find out that it happened to someone I knew, that was the breaking point for me. I'm not alone in this. Many people are having those same emotions. We are all grieving. There is...

Gunman opens fire at popular Orlando nightclub, mass casualties reported. (UPDATE)

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Photo Credit: DallasNews If you are just waking up, you're probably seeing on the news that a man opened fire at Pulse Orlando in the early hours of Sunday. It is reported that there are "mass casualties." There were over 100 people inside the popular gay club when the shooting occurred. Pulse Orlando posted on their Facebook at 2am: "Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running." Witness Christopher Hansen was in the VIP lounge at Pulse when the shooting occurred. "I was thinking, are you kidding me? So I just dropped down. I just said please, please, please, I want to make it out. And when I did, I saw people shot. I saw blood. You hope and pray you don't get shot." Hansen said that after escaping the club, he still heard gunshots. He also saw injured patrons being taken care of across the street. Mina Justice's son Eddie was in the club when the shooting took place. She was trying hard to contact him after he texted her to call p...