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'Luiyo', a 26-year-old Puerto Rican with "a big heart", among the fatalities of the Surfside landslide

2021-06-29T08:00:08.565Z


Luis Andrés Bermúdez passed away like his mother Ana Ortiz. Bermúdez, who had muscular dystrophy, owned his own clothing business. "There are no limits," he had said on his social networks. "Calling him unforgettable is an understatement," wrote one of his professors.


Puerto Rican Luis Andrés Bermúdez, 26, who lived on the seventh floor of Champlain Towers South, is one of the 10 fatalities identified so far by authorities after the partial collapse of the building in Surfside, Florida.

"God decided he wanted one more angel in heaven. I still don't believe it. I LOVE you and will love you forever," wrote his father, also named Luis Bermúdez, on his Facebook page.

In social networks messages of affection flowed for

Luiyo, as his loved ones called him.

"My Luiyo. You have given me everything,"

his father wrote in black ink on the back of the photo,

"I will miss you all my life ... I will never leave you alone."

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Bermúdez and

his mother, Ana Ortiz,

46, were identified as victims Sunday night by Miami-Dade police.

Mother and son disappeared along with Ortiz's new husband, Frankie Kleiman.

Kleiman's mother, Nancy Kress Levin, and her brother Jay Kleiman also remain missing.

Bermúdez

had muscular dystrophy and used a wheelchair.

He was born on December 6, 1994, and described himself as a man with

"a big heart"

who was "happy to live another day" and who had "big dreams and ideas."

Ana Ortiz, 46, and her son Luis Bermúdez, 26, two of the deceased persons confirmed by the authorities this Sunday.

"Calling him unforgettable is an understatement," wrote his teacher José J. Ortiz Carlo, who described the young man as a "silent warrior" who never missed class and was always smiling.

Bermúdez owned a clothing business called Saucy Boyz Clothing, which is characterized by its

colorful drawings of sushi, a food that he loved.

He had difficulty using his hands and fingers, according to himself, but this did not stop him from becoming an artist.

"Thanks to my attitude I have achieved my dream," he

shared on his Instagram account.

"The purpose of these designs is to share my art with the world and let them know that, despite whatever impediments they may have, they can achieve whatever they set their mind and heart on."

He stressed: "There are no limits."

[What we know about the victims and disappeared after the building collapse in Miami]

Some of the other fatalities confirmed by Miami-Dade County authorities are: Stacie Dawn Fang, 54;

Antonio Lozano, 83;

Gladys Lozano, 79;

Manuel Lafont, 54;

Leon Oliwkowicz, 80;

and Christina Elvira, 74.

With information from the Miami Herald.

Source: telemundo

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