One co-owned a gift and toy shop. Another was a college student who also worked at a women's clothing store and planned to start radiology school in the coming days.

Jillian Johnson, 33, and Mayci Breaux, 21, were among those shot Thursday night by a gunman at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater at a showing of the Amy Schumer comedy, "Trainwreck."

Breaux, of Franklin, Louisiana, was shot dead at the scene, and Johnson, who was from Lafayette, died a short time later at a hospital, Lafayette police Chief Jim Craft said.

"Don't lose sight of the fact that these two individuals had a vision, had a name, had a future," said Col. Michael Edmonson of the Louisiana State Police. "It wasn't to die as they did horribly in this theater here."

Of the nine others injured, one was in critical condition Friday afternoon, and two had been released, Craft said. Authorities identified the gunman as 59-year-old John Russell "Rusty" Houser.

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An online business profile identifies Johnson as the co-owner of the Red Arrow Workshop. The business is described as a gift, apparel, accessories and toy shop. Johnson owned the shop with her husband, Jason Brown, the website says.

She was "obsessed with Fats Waller," and her all-time favorite movie was "Coal Miner's Daughter," according to the site.

"Pretty much any time you go in, she is there and doing work," a friend, Caitlin Sonnier, said of Johnson's presence at the shop. "She was very devoted to it."

Johnson was also part of a band, the Figs, which was at the "forefront of a movement of a younger generation embracing Cajun/folk music traditions and making them popular and 'cool' again," Molly Rowe, who knew her, said via email.

"She was ... a phenomenal musician, which is what most of the community knew her for," Rowe said.