These are the victims of the San Bernardino shooting
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Your support makes all the difference.Two attackers opened fire inside a social services center in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday leaving 14 dead and many others wounded. Local authorities chose not to name victims on Wednesday so they could contact families and friends of the victims.
Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, orchestrated the shooting, and nearly four hours later were killed in a shootout with police.
On Thursday night, the San Bernardino County Coroner released the names of deceased victims.
Nicholas Thalasinos, 52
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Jennifer Thalasinos, Nicholas' wife of nine years, said he had previously been friendly with Farook. She told the New York Times that her husband was apart of the same group of employees.
“He had worked with him,” she said. “He had talked about him. Nothing negative.”
She added that she and her husband were devout Messianic Jews and that he typically wore tzitzit, traditional Jewish tassels on his pants. Thalasinos previously worked as a health inspector in Cape May County, New Jersey.
"He was a wonderful friend," Ed Beck, an old friend told Philly.com. "He worked in Cape May County as a health inspector and went out to California and was doing the same work there."
Shannon Johnson, 45
Johnson, 45, was an environmental health specialist for 10 years living in Los Angeles.
Bennetta Betbadal, 46
Betbadal, 46, was born and raised in Iran. When she turned 18 she fled to the US to escape Islamic extremism following the Iranian Revolution, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up by her children. She settled in California and married Arlen Verdehyou. The couple had three children.
She was one of several victims working as an inspector for the San Bernardino County Health Department.
Isaac Amanios, 60
Nat Berhe, a safety for the New York Giants, called his cousin "a great human being" on Twitter.
"Just got word that one of my cousins was among the 14 killed yesterday, I'm so sick right now."
"The true terror is that this keeps happening. I still can't believe it. Take a moment to think of the families hurting right now," Mr Berhe wrote.
Larry Kaufman, 42
Kaufman, 42, ran a coffee shop at the Inland Regional Center, and trained developmentally-disabled clients who worked there, CBS News reports.
Eileen Richey, the executive director of the Association of Regional Center Agencies, said Kaufman's death "fills us with sorrow, knowing so many families are in mourning."
Katherine Panowicz, his friend of 15 years, said that he loved parades and was an avid participant of the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Southern California.
"[He] would change the entire environment of a room just because he had a big brilliant smile," she told CBS.
Robert Adams, 40
Harry Bowman, 46
Yvette Velasco, 27
Sierra Clayborn, 27
Clayborn, 27, was identified by her sister Timishia. She lived with her boyfriend and was recent addition to the county inspection team.
"She was such a beautiful person. Absolute sweetheart," Mary Hale, who managed the property where Clayborn lived, told NBC News. "Boy, the world's missing out on someone special."
Tin Nguyen, 31
Tin Nyugen, 31, loved to hike and was a "very peaceful person," according to her cousin Jimmy. "She was a true goody two-shoes. A real innocent," he said. Tin reportedly had just gone wedding dress shopping with her boyfriend.
Juan Espinoza, 50
Espinoza worked as an inspector for the county health department, his daughter, Jerusalem, said in a brief telephone interview. He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.
Damian Meins, 58
Aurora Godoy, 26
Godoy, 26, was the youngest killed in the attack. She married her high school sweetheart in 2012 and was the mother to one child.
Her aunt Rebecca Godoy wrote Facebook status saying she would "will keep her flame alive so that her young son does not forget his special mother... God bless us all."
Michael Wetzel, 37
Wetzel, 37-year-old, was the father of six children.