Nick Leslie is the third American confirmed dead in the attack. Sean Copeland, 51 and his son Brodie Copeland, 11, from Lakeway, Texas, were earlier confirmed to have been killed.
BERKELEY, Calif. — An American student from the University of California, Berkeley was identified Sunday as one of the 84 killed in Thursday’s Bastille Day truck attack on the French city of Nice, according to statement from his school.
The university said the FBI informed school officials that the body of 20-year-old Nicolas Leslie, from Del Mar in the San Diego area, had been identified. Leslie was a junior at Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources.
“This is tragic, devastating news,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said in a statement. “All of us in the UC Berkeley family — both here on campus, and around the world — are heartbroken to learn that another promising young student has been lost to senseless violence.”
Another Berkeley student, Tarishi Jain, was among the hostages killed by militants in Dhaka, Bangladesh earlier this month.