“Our family is overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and condolences we’ve received in the wake of Hunter’s sudden passing,” the parents said in a statement. As a teen, he had been in the Explorer program at the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, where his mother is a deputy and his father is a captain. He had planned to follow in the footsteps of his parents and embark on a career in law enforcement after his military deployment. State Department officials evacuate thousands of Americans and Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban as the 20-year war drew to a close, the Riverside Press Enterprise reported. Lopez was part of a special crisis response team sent to provide security and help U.S. “He died a hero saving the lives of those he did not know,” Riverside County Sheriff’s Lt. Hunter Lopez, 22, mourners noted his final heroic act - rescuing children from a rioting mob before the blast took his life. She said her brother had wanted to become a Marine “for as long as I can remember” and went on to join the Junior ROTC at his high school.Īt a memorial service in Palm Springs for Cpl. “It didn’t surprise me that those were his last moments,” his sister Shyler Chappell said. Phil Wozniak, pastor of Grace Fellowship Church Norco, said Nikoui pulled three families to safety and went back to the airport to rescue a child when the bomb went off. Nikoui sent videos to his family hours before he died, showing himself interacting with children in Afghanistan. troops killed in a horrific suicide bombing at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport, which also claimed the lives of more than 160 Afghans, on Aug. Kareem Nikoui packed a church in Riverside to celebrate the life of the 20-year-old Marine from Norco. Mourners in California said prayers and their final goodbyes today to three Marines killed in last month’s bombing in Afghanistan.įamily and friends of Lance Cpl.
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