U.S. man killed was celebrating anniversary

Dead and injured were from nearly three dozen nations.

The dead and injured PARIS — in Barcelona were a snapshot of the world — men, women and children from nearly three dozen nations — testifying to the huge global appeal of the sun-kissed city.

Families, friends and government officials from Paris to Sydney, San Francisco to Berlin sought Friday to learn the names of those mowed down by suspected Islamic extremists who zig-zagged down Barcelona’s crowded Las Ramblas promenade in a van, killing 13 people and injuring 120 others.

A related attack Friday morning in the seaside town of Cambrils took the death toll to 14. Here is a look at some of the victims:

Jared Tucker, 42, United States

Tucker was confirmed as among those killed in a deadly truck attack in Barcelona his father said Friday.

“We just got the text — Jared’s body was identified at the morgue by his wife,” Daniel Tucker told the Daily News of New York. “It’s just something we really just don’t understand.”

Jared Tucker’s sister, Tina Luke, said Tucker, 42, and his wife Heidi Nunes-Tucker had been celebrating their first wedding anniversary.

Tucker and his father worked together installing swimming pools. The elder Tucker told the Daily News that “everybody loved him.”

Pepita Codina, 75, Spain

Codina’s death was confirmed on Twitter and Instagram by Xavier Vilamala, the mayor of Hipolit de Voldrega, the town of 3,000 people where she was from.

Vilamala said on Twitter he was “very sad and distressed” by the news.

Local media reported that Codina’s daughter, Elisabet, was injured in the attack.

Ana Maria Suarez, Spain

The Spanish Royal family sent condolences to Suarez’s family in its Twitter account after she died in the attack in the resort town of Cambrils.

According to local media, she was originally from the city of Zaragoza, and was on vacation with her family. Her husband and one of her sisters were injured.

Francisco Lopez Rodriguez, Spain

One of his nieces, Raquel Baron Lopez, said on her Twitter account that Rodriguez, 60, died immediately when he was struck by the van.

“We are a broken family” Lopez posted on Twitter.

While his age is not clear, relatives have told local media that Rodriguez was a 57-yearold machine operator who was strolling with his family along Las Ramblas when the attack occurred. His wife, badly injured, worked at a meat shop in Rubi, a nearby town where they both lived.

Bruno Gulotta, 35, Italy

The father from Legnano in northern Italy was praised as a hero who protected his children during the attack.

One of his Gulotta’s work colleagues, Pino Bruno, told the Italian news agency ANSA that Gulotta saved the life of his two young children — Alessandro, 6, and Aria, 7 months — by throwing himself between them and the van.

Bruno said he spoke to Gulotta’s wife, Martina, and she told him her husband had been holding the 6-year-old’s hand on the tourist-thronged avenue in Barcelona when “the van appeared suddenly.”

Gulotta was a sales manager for Tom’s Hardware Italia, an online tech publication.

Luca Russo, 25, Italy

Russo was mourned as a brilliant young engineer dragged to his death before his girlfriend’s eyes.

Though young, Russo had landed a job in electronic engineering, no easy feat in Italy, where youth unemployment runs stubbornly high.

“We were investing in him, we wanted to make him grow professionally,” Stefano Facchinello, a partner in the Padua-area company where Russo had worked for a year, told the Italian news agency ANSA.

Facchinello praised Russo as a “willing, precise and punctual young man. He made an impression on us for his rationality and determination.”

Rosario Rizzuto, the rector at Padua University, where Russo studied, said the young man “earned his degree brilliantly and got down to work.”

The girlfriend, Marta Scomazzon, who was hospitalized with a fractured foot and elbow, told an aunt that “we were walking together, then the van came on top of us.”

Elke Vanbockrijck, Belgium

Arnould Partoens, president of the KFC Heur Tongeren soccer team, said Vanbockrijck was at the club “nearly every day” ferrying her 10and 14-year-old boys back and forth to training and matches.

“She was always positive,” he said, adding that the team would hold a minute of silence before every match and training session this weekend.

Partoens said the family was on vacation in Barcelona. The boys and their father, a policeman, were unhurt, he said.

“The mother was in the wrong moment and the wrong place,” he said.

In a message on its Facebook page, the club said: “We will always remember her as a happy woman, a caring mother and loving wife.”