Giants safety Nat Behre tweeted that he lost his cousin in Wednesday’s rampage at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
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Nicholas Thalasinos was a long-time employee of the San Bernardino Department of Health.
Thalasinos was an environmental health inspector just like the suspected shooter and had worked with him in the past, Rev. Dowell said. “They are very overwhelmed”.
Bennetta Bet-Badal, 46, of Rialto: Bet-Badal came to America from Iran in to “escape Islamic extremism and the persecution of Christians that followed the Iranian Revolution”, her family said in a statement.
Wetzel’s death was confirmed in a post on an online fundraiser, which was launched Thursday for his wife and six children.
Michael Wetzel, who worked as an environmental specialist, was in a meeting at the center when the gunfire broke out, ABC7 reported. Getting his wife, parents and his family through this, and those six kids and 14-years-old to two-years-old, who know him as daddy and aren’t going to have him any more, Amy said.
Wetzel’s wife, Renee, “wanted everybody to know he was the most unbelievable person she ever met. He was her best friend”.
He was the kind of man who stalled checkout lines at grocery stores so he could chat up strangers, his boyfriend Ryan Reyes said. “We must stand strong and offer support to each individual affected by this senseless attack”, stated Sheriff John McMahon.
His uncle, Gregory Johnson, told NBC News: “Everyone in the family is devastated”.
“He was his usual cheerful, chattering self”, Reyes said.
One police officer was injured and taken to hospital with minor injuries.
“That’s when that hope really dwindled and it was extremely hard trying to hold a ray of hope”, Reyes said.
‘The world will suffer from having one less person like him in it, ‘ Reyes told KABC-TV.
He told ABC News that one of the last things he said to Kaufman was, “I love you”.
A number of the victims were staff members of San Bernardino County’s Environmental Health Services division.
A father-of-two, married to Trenna Meins who was the principal of Sacred Heart Parish School.
Survivors expressed shock that Farook, a quiet employee of the county for years, could orchestrate such an attack.
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HANDOUT/REUTERS Fourteen people were gunned down in the mass shooting on Wednesday, with even more wounded. Police said today that they found three pipe bombs tied together in the buildings after the shooting. He had also worked at Cape May County’s Department of Health in New Jersey from 1988 until 2002, according to CNN affiliate WPVI.
