ORLANDO — Since the final name was added to the list of the Orlando massacre victims, more is being known about the lives that were so tragically lost.
One such victim was a 49-year-old single mother of 11, who beat cancer twice.
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Brenda Lee Marquez McCool went to the Pulse Nightclub to dance and have fun with her son that Sunday night, the Orlando Sentinel reports. She even posted video on her Facebook page of dancing inside the club just two hours before a gunman opened fire.
Posted by Brenda McCool on Saturday, June 11, 2016
McCool and her son were both hit by the bullets – she died and her son, Isaiah Henderson, survived.
Henderson posted video on his Facebook page of an interview of another survivor talking about McCool. The man, Carlos Rosario, said McCool was like the "mom of Pulse." Rosario described her as caring, cool and supportive.
"I was talking about how I liked her bag and she started smiling and she told me, 'Well, I like your smile.' That was the last thing she said to me," Rosario said.
McCool's daughter, Kali Pressley, posted on her Facebook page that Henderson called her after the shooting, screaming hysterically about what happened.
McCool has 7 boys and 4 girls.
One of her sons put up a GoFundMe account to pay for McCool's funeral arrangements.
The family says they are asking for prayers.
Cox Media Group
