Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez
March 28, 1989 - June 12, 2016
Jean Carlos Nieves Rodriguez, originally from Puerto Rico. He started working at a McDonald's in Boggy Creek when he was 15. Within a few years, he became a manager. In recent years, he became a general manager of a check-cashing store.
Hardworking, loyal, dependable and loving were just some of the adjectives friends, families and co-workers use to describe Jean. He bought his first house a month and a half ago because he wanted his mother to have a nice place to live.
Jean was killed during the shooting early Sunday morning at Pulse nightclub.
Jean was a "caring, loving guy - just like a big teddy bear," one of his friends, Ivonne Irizarry said. He was young, but people already depended on him. He loved cars and going to the beach. Above all else, though, he loved his family and friends.
"Whatever the situation was, good or bad, he was with me. He was a friend. He was family. He was a brother. And it didn't matter the time. If you called him and you needed help, he'd be there," Ivonne Irizarry, a friend said. "He wanted to be the best at what he did, and he would work very hard to achieve that. ... So if he had to put in the long hours to get it right, he'd do it. If he had to stay to work a double [shift], he did it. That's why whatever job he went to, he became a manager."
Jean was a great person inside and out," according to friends. His cousin's wife wrote on Facebook that the families are are devastated by the loss. The general manager of a local store, he just recently bought his first house. "He was just a caring, loving guy," one of his best friends said. "Just like a big teddy bear."
"He cared more about others than about himself," said his sister, Valeria Monroig.
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