He was attending nursing school while working with our senior citizens as a social worker.
A caring and loving young man, he was already serving others. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio singled out Rios Monday night at the Stonewall Inn vigil in Manhattan.
'He had so much joy in him and was so funny,' Dorys Gonzalez wrote in a remembrance on Facebook. A co-worker remembered his sense of humor. While he was in school, Rios worked at a restaurant at LaGuardia Airport. Francis College community mourns the loss of one of our own and offers prayers to his family and friends.' Francis College in Brooklyn, studying social work.Ī spokesman for the college, Richard Relkin, said in a press release, 'Sadly, his dreams were cut short by this senseless act of violence. Rios was on vacation in Orlando from Brooklyn, N.Y.