He was flown to a hospital and later released.
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“As a dad myself with kids around that age, I can not imagine the pain that his parents are going through”, said Sean Reid, dean of the Ithaca College School of Business. The second victim was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a regional trauma center. He died at Cayuga Medical Center.
Ithaca College students plan to mourn Nazaire at a campus gathering Monday afternoon, the school said.
The student killed was a 19-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, the police chief for the town of Ithaca, John Barber, said in an email. “I wish we could have got there a few minutes earlier”.
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Raised in Brooklyn and educated in bucolic Ithaca on a full scholarship, Anthony Nazaire was the first person in his family to attend college.
Williamson also said the IPD is now reviewing cell phone videos of the incident.
Nazaire, who was studying business administration at Ithaca College, left home last week after spending the summer in the city. I don’t get it, why this happened to us.
Friends, family and press gathered for a candlelight vigil this morning outside the Nazaire family residence on Newkirk Avenue.
Police said surveillance video shows several people fighting outside and others taking cell phone videos of the clash.
The Ithaca Police Department is leading a team of several local law enforcement agencies who are investigating. “He would hold me and tell me how good he was going to be”, Nazaire’s godfather, Jacques Dorsainvil, added.
“I hope they get caught and justice is done”, Katia Toussaint, Nazaire’s mother, told the New York Daily News. Efforts to obtain information on the suspect are ongoing, police said.
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“There is nothing more important than the safety of our community; as such, this incident is deeply disturbing”, Lombardi said. Other “Say It Loud 2016” events included orientation sessions for incoming black students, ice cream socials, a Labor Day weekend barbecue and a game night.
