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A California police department employee and Colorado State University graduate who worked with older adults was among the 59 people killed in Sunday night’s mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas.

Rachael Parker, 33, graduated in May with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in human services from CSU-Global Campus, the online campus of the CSU system. She was from Washington state, said Sgt. Tim Zins, of the Manhattan Beach, Calif., police department.

“She had an affinity for working with older adults, a passion,” Janet Buike, a friend of Parker, told The Denver Post.

As part of her studies she had to do an internship, and contacted Buike, who heads the older adult program for the city of Manhattan Beach, Calif. “She served lunches for us, she talked to everybody and welcomed them into the program. She had a bubbly personality that never, never, stopped,” Buike said.

She recently bought a condo, and adopted a second Rottweiler, Buike said. In a Facebook post, the Manhattan Beach Police Department said the dogs names are Maddie and Izzy.

The Manhattan Beach (Calif.) Police Department writes that Parker was a records technician for the department, and her smile 鈥渃ould light up a room, even on the most difficult of days.鈥�

She was a country music fan who liked to bake and watch Los Angeles Kings hockey games.