Who Are The San Bernardino Attack Victims? Authorities Release Names
Friends and family have begun identifying the victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino.
He said the county was looking to increase security at county facilities and offices in the wake of the recent mass shootings, and had added armed guards at Atlantic Cape Community College campuses.
Michael Raymond Wetzel: Michael Raymond Wetzel, was a 37-year-old father of six who supervised a team of health inspectors in the county Environmental Health Services division. Friends and fellow church members appealed for help supporting his widow Renee, a stay-at-home mom in Lake Arrowhead, California. Michael, whose exact age is not known, is survived by his wife, Renee Wetzel, and his six children, the youngest of whom is just a baby. “He loved his work and his family so very much”, she said in a statement.
She said Thalasinos never mentioned Farook’s name before that conversation, and that he had not expressed any concerns about Farook hurting him or anyone else.
Thalasinos’ wife, Jennifer Thalasinos, gathered numerous heartfelt condolence messages on her own Facebook page Thursday.
LOS ANGELES-Two weeks before he died, Nicholas Thalasinos, a 52-year-old Messianic Jew, engaged in a heated discussion about the nature of Islam with his colleague Syed Farook. Stephens said Thalasinos told her that Farook did not believe Israel belonged in the Middle East and that it was a Muslim homeland.
According to what Thalasinos’ friend told the Associated Press the two had argued over religion and Israel.
“He was a wonderful person”, Joey Shimoni, a friend of Thalasinos, told the AP. Her greatest love, however, was for her husband, her children, and her large extended family.
He also worked as an extended care coordinator at St Catherine of Alexandria School. Meins was fondly remembered as the guy who dressed up as Santa for school pictures, according to a parent’s social media posting Thursday. The ensuing manhunt ended when police shot two armed suspects, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik. She was confirmed dead by her sister, Tamishia Clayborn, who spoke to local NBC affiliate KNBC.
She says she had “no clue” whether Mr Farook had become radicalized in his Islamic faith.
“She was such a attractive person”.
Kaufman, 42, who went by Daniel, was killed yesterday when he was working at a coffee shop at the Inland Regional Center.
Authorities say the husband-and-wife attackers fired 75 rifle rounds in the assault, left behind three rigged-together pipe bombs with a remote-control device that apparently malfunctioned, and had over 1,600 more bullets with them when they were gunned down in their SUV.
“Everyone in my family is devastated”, Kaufman’s uncle, Gregory Johnson, told NBC News. I knew Nick for a period of years from the health department.