Fourteen people were killed Dec. 2, 2015 when two attackers opened fire at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
Nearly two dozen more were wounded in the tragedy at the holiday lunch and training session, attended by several co-workers employed by the county health department. Twelve of the 14 people killed were San Bernardino County employees.
They ranged in age from 26 to 60, many having pursued careers that helped keep the community safe and healthy.
Some family members of those killed gathered Tuesday at a remembrance ceremony on the CSU San Bernardino campus The annual Day of Remembrance was at the school’s peace garden, where a bronze bell sounded 14 times in honor of the victims.
A private memorial also was conducted at the Curtain of Courage memorial outside the county building.
The attackers, one of whom also worked for the department, were killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers that followed a brief pursuit.
Here are the names of the 14 shooting victims.
Robert Adams, 40
A Yucaipa resident, Robert Adams was an Environmental Health Specialist. His daughter was 20 months old at the time of the shooting. He was married to his high school sweetheart and an avid online gamer.
Isaac Amanios, 60
Isaac Armanios moved to the United States in 2000 from Eritrea, a small country in Africa between Sudan and Ethiopia. He was a county health inspector.
Benneta Betbadal, 46
Having fled Iran at 18, Benneta Betbadal became a county health inspector in 2006. She was the mother of three.
Harry Bowman, 46
The father of two daughters, Harry Bowman was a statistical analyst for the county health department. A lover of the outdoors, the Pennsylvania native had been an expert on data sets and mapping for the University of Southern California’s National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events.
Sierra Clayborn, 27
Sierra Clayborn had recently joined the team of county inspectors. A 2010 UC Riverside grad, Clayborn inspected restaurants for the agency and was described as someone who always shared positive energy and encouraging words.
Juan Espinoza, 50
A Highland resident, Juan Espinoza was a health inspector and father of two. Born in Mexico, he came to the United States about two decades before the shooting.
Aurora Godoy, 26
The youngest shooting victim, Aurora Godoy was a mother of one — 22 months old at the time — from San Jacinto. She was an office assistant for the San Bernardino County Department of Health.
Shannon Johnson, 45
A resident of Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Shannon Johnson commuted by train to his job in San Bernardino as a health inspector. Johnson grew up in Kentucky and played baseball at a college in Georgia. His wife was a member of the Los Angeles mayor’s crisis response team.
Daniel Kaufman, 42
Daniel Kaufman trained developmentally disabled employees at the Inland Regional Center’s coffee shop. Friends described him as funny and always smiling.
Damian Meins, 58
A father of two, Damian Meins worked for Environmental Health Services. Described as passionate about serving his community, Meins married high school sweetheart and also worked for Riverside County. He served as an extended carer coordinator at St. Catherine of Alexandria.
Tin Nguyen, 31
Tin Nguyen was a food inspector with the county health department. Born in Vietnam, she grew up in the United States.
Nicholas Thalasinos, 52
Nicholas Thalasinos, of Colton, was a longtime health inspector for the county.
Yvette Velasco, 27
A Fontana resident, Yvette Velasco was remembered by family as an “intelligent, motivated, and beautiful young woman.”
Michael Raymond Wetzel, 37
A father of six, Michael Raymond Wetzel supervised a team of Environmental Health Services division county health inspectors.
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