Mike Wetzel, 37, of Lake Arrowhead, a rangy environmental health specialist with San Bernadino County who, according to the Los Angeles Times, loved children and coached both boys’ and girls’ soccer.
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His wife, Renee, said, “Michael was the most wonderful person”. On Wednesday, she was excited to give a presentation to her co-workers and supervisors at their annual meeting, the site said. “Without him, this family will never be the same”.
Thalasinos was an environmental health inspector just like the suspected shooter and had worked with him in the past, Rev. Dowell said. Meins and his wife looked out for Harris and his wife Ruth, he said.
Among those killed were a father of six, a man who had recently returned from retirement to work and the manager of a coffee shop where the shooting took place – 14 souls in all.
He also worked as an extended care coordinator at St Catherine of Alexandria School. The school held a service in his honor on Thursday.
Sierra Clayborn, 27, Moreno Valley. Of the 21 injured, 18 worked for the county. Police later killed the couple, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in a shootout. “He did leave the party early under some circumstances that was described as angry or something of that nature”, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said. Police sent a robot to the couple’s home in Redlands, California, where they detonated the explosives inside.
In addition to running the coffee shop in building 3 at the Inland Regional Center since 2010, 42-year-old Kaufman, who went by Daniel and was a resident of Rialto, trained the developmentally disabled clients who worked with him.
Reyes finally got the call from Mr Kaufman’s aunt the next day, who broke the terrible news that his boyfriend had died. But on Thursday officials said he was dead.
“That’s when I was even more devastated”, Reyes told ABC News. “He was a good person”.
“My heart is heavy this morning as we learned that one of our former teachers, Damian Meins, was one of the victims that lost their lives yesterday in the senseless mass shooting in San Bernardino”, Laurie Lee Nussabaum wrote on Facebook. He recalled standing at the paper towel dispenser when the gun blasts punched the wall in front of him, sending a puff of drywall dust into his face. “I figured he would be fine”, Jacob said. His coworkers also found out this morning.
Survivors expressed shock that Farook, a quiet employee of the county for years, could orchestrate such an attack.
Harry Bowman: Harry Bowman, 46, of Upland, was a father of two daughters, ages 11 and 15, family member Bill Kraft told the Los Angeles Times. Did they know that Regional Centers help children and adults with developmental disabilities such as autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities?
“Death at its best is hard to take”.
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From the floor of shooting scene, she texted her family: “Love you guys”.
