Orlando experienced a world of hurt last week, starting with Christina Grimme’s tragic death and ending with the death of 2-year-old boy after an alligator attack.

Starting off the chain of tragic events was the death of former singer, Christina Grimme, from "The Voice" who was shot by a man from St. Petersburg, Florida, while she was signing autographs after her concert at The Plaza Live theater in Orlando, according to CNN.

Ending the week of deplorable circumstances was the death of 2-year-old Lane Graves after he was attacked and pulled into water near a Disney resort in Orlando on June 14. Graves’ body was later recovered by authorities about 17 hours after the attack took place, according to USA Today.

Sandwiched between these two horrific events was the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub the morning of June 12. The gunman, Omar Mateen, a resident of Fort Pierce, Florida, killed 49 people and injured 53 others, according to the New York Times. Mateen died later on Sunday morning after a shootout with law enforcement.

This devastating act of terror violence was the largest terrorist attack on U.S. territory since 9/11. Although this shooting was not as large scale as the fall of the Twin Towers along with the lives that were taken, it devastated the country. With 50 people losing their lives that Sunday morning, including the gunman, many more lives were impacted by the loss of partners, children, parents and friends.

Thinking about the amount of people an average person knows and comes into contact with throughout their life, it wasn’t just the 50 people that lost their lives or the 53 injured, it goes far beyond these numbers. Regardless of how many people loved, knew or were even touched by any of the victims, many lives were left in devastation.

It’s extremely difficult to think that one man had the power to do so much damage. He alone took the lives of people who now appear as “one of the 49.” The names of the victims are not what’s making the headlines, it’s the numbers that everyone is going to remember. The gunman not only took their lives but indirectly stripped them of their identity and left them as a statistic.

It was a horrific week of events, some will remember bits and pieces heard on the news and broadcast on the radio as they were driving home from work. Some will never fully recover, and how can they be expected to? This week will hold its own set of tragedies, but let us remember those who lost their lives, the loved ones they left behind and those that will never be the same again.