He ran an independently owned coffee shop inside the Inland Regional Center where the county health workers were using a hall for their holiday banquet.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Ortiz, 24, is an environmental inspector with San Bernardino County. “His passion was beyond words, as he shared with many of us”, another Facebook friend, Nina Young Roppa said in a post.
Michael was a father of six children. Fourteen people were killed in the rampage at the Inland Regional Center, and at least 21 injured. On Wednesday, she was excited to give a presentation to her co-workers and supervisors at their annual meeting, the site said.
One of the 14 people killed when a couple opened fire at a San Bernardino treatment center for people with developmental disabilities was identified by family Thursday as a Valley Village man.
Authorities have identified Syed Rizwan Farook, a 28-year-old county restaurant inspector, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, as the gunmen in the shooting. “He was a loving son, brother, husband and daddy to Savannah”, it read. However, his wife Jennifer said “she believes her husband was martyred for his faith and beliefs”, Stephens said.
The conversation between Farook and Thalasinos was brief, she said, adding that “it didn’t set off any bells or whistles for me”. She sent her family a message through a group chat app to say she’d been shot, he said, and included a selfie that showed just her face. I can’t get a hold of him.
“He loved Messiah and I rejoice in knowing he is rejoicing with the ONE he has longed to meet”, responded one religious Facebook friend, Juda Myers. [Farook] started with those close to the door. PHOTOS: Scene of mass shooting at San Bernardino social services facilityIn addition to the two assault rifles and two semi-automatic handguns that were used in the shooting, all of which were purchased legally, according to law enforcement sources, investigators also found three pipe bomb-style devices that they believed to be explosive devices. There, they raisedthree children, who are now adults.
Now, they fear the worst. The thing is that most of the employees of that department were taken for examination. “I don’t think he saw that coming, that he could be violent”. ‘If he would’ve thought that somebody in his office was like that, he would’ve said something’. “He didn’t know how people can get along if they can’t even talk”, she said. And then finally we have to accept.
Officials said the dead include Shannon Johnson, 45, Benneta Bet-Badal, 46, Aurora Godoy, 26, Isaac Amanios, 60, Larry Kaufman, 42, Harry Bowman, 46, Yvette Velasco, 27, Sierra Clayborn, 27, Robert Adams, 40, Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, Tin Nguyen, 31, Juan Espinoza, 50, Damian Meins, 58 and Michael Wetzel, 37.
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Phillip reported from San Bernardino.
