“This is tragic, devastating news”, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said in the statement.
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A message left for the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Leslie by The AP wasn’t immediately returned.
A 20-year-old University of California Berkeley student was killed during the terrorist attack in Nice, France, according to school officials. “It is just heartbreaking to know there are families out there who had that same reaction I did but they weren’t as lucky as I was to find out my sister is OK”, student Mary Rockwood said.
Friends told NBC Bay Area that Leslie avoided being hit by the truck but was separated from his group during the stampede and chaos that followed. He adds that the U.S. Embassy is helping out and UC Berkeley has mobilized.
Leslie’s uncle and aunt searched the hospitals of Nice, with no luck, according to published reports.
“We’re trying to get ourselves to France right now”, said Conrad Leslie, Nick’s father, Saturday morning.
A local woman studying overseas was at the scene of the deadly attacks and is searching for her friend who went missing. “We haven’t heard anything yet”.
He is the third American confirmed killed in the Thursday attack.
Leslie, a junior in UC Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources, was among 85 UC Berkeley students in Nice for the four-week-long European Innovation Academy, an global program that helps students with their startup ideas, according to the campus.
UC Berkeley students Vladyslav Kostiuk, 23, Daryus Medora, 21, and Diane Huang, 20, were injured in the attack. “One of the students said he ran off with Nick during the attack but they got separated”, Akireddy said.
The conference was temporarily suspended Friday because of the tragedy. According to the UC Berkeley, four students chose to return home to the USA immediately.
All four were among 85 participants in a summer entrepreneurship program near Nice.
White said SDSU does not have any programs in Nice. Two other students injured in the attack have been released from the hospital and returned to their dorms in Nice.
“That’s part of the protocol in today’s world”. But concern about his whereabouts grew when he did not return to student housing that night and did not contact his family. The friend asked to be identified only by her first name, Antonella, to protect her privacy as well as the family’s. Others in the Cal community posted about the grief and their concern for Leslie’s whereabouts on the university’s Facebook page. I miss you. We miss you.
“We’re going insane”, Leslie said.
“I thought that by the time the morning came he’d be fine and he would have turned up”.
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Leslie is the second student to be killed overseas in terror attacks in less than a month. Sophomore Tarishi Jain, who was studying overseas, was one of 20 hostages killed July 1 during a standoff at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Bangladesh.
