Twenty-five remained comatose.
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Brodie as an incredible son and brother who lit up their lives. “When they return home they will be wrapped up, they will be well loved, well fed, well covered, most importantly well prayed over”, he said.
The family was enjoying a European dream vacation that started with the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, and flamenco dancing in Barcelona, family friend Jess Davis told media.
Two Americans are among the dead from France’s Bastille Day attack.
A GoFund me page has been set up for the Copeland family. “They’re grieving. They need all the love and support of our American family as they grapple with an unimaginable loss and try to get through what are going to be very hard days”.
Cable also said Sean Copeland was a great father.
He said in a statement that Brodie was a one-of-a-kind kid, “popular, funny, mature and fun to be around”.
In a statement, Sen.
“By now many of you have heard about the 80 people that have died in nice, France today from a terrorist attack driving through a parade”, Haley Copeland posted Friday.
The Copelands’ vacation was in part to celebrate the birthdays of Copeland’s wife, Kim, and his son, Austin, Davis said.
Kim, i do not have the words nor know what you are going through.
Sean Copeland was a vice president for North and South America at a software division of Lexmark Inc., a business automation firm. And he was an avid baseball fan.
“This afternoon our very own Brodie Copeland, as well as his father Sean Copeland, were killed during the terrorist attack in Nice, France”, the organization wrote.
“Brodie could make an audience laugh and then bring tears to their eyes with his honest, poignant performance”, said Dede Clark, artistic director for the theater group kidsActing.
Both young Brodie and his father were avid baseball fans. He was identified as a 31-year-old Frenchman of Tunisian descent.
Brodie aspired to be an actor or a comedian.
We know that a large number of the victims are from France, though French authorities have not yet issued a list of the deceased. “Our thoughts are with Austin Copeland, his family and all of those individuals impacted by this horrific event”. All of the students were attending a 15-day program called Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe.
Another victim was a Russian named in reports as 21-year-old student Victoria Savchenko.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who chairs the House Homeland Security panel, said Friday morning he was saddened over a “truly heartbreaking loss of life in #Nice”.
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She had been with her nieces and nephews at the time of the attack, according to her son.
