Barcelona victim’s wife seeks person

LOS ANGELES — The wife of the only American killed in last week’s Barcelona terror attack said Tuesday that she’s trying to find a man who may have been the last person to see her husband alive.

A photo or video posted on social media shortly after the attack shows the man, who appeared to be dressed like a waiter, trying to help 42-year-old Jared Tucker, said his wife, Heidi NunesTucker, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from Barcelona.

Nunes-Tucker, of the San Francisco Bay Area, she does not have a copy of the post but that she and her family would like to thank the waiter.

“We are trying,” she said. “It looks like he was helping and anybody that stopped to help amidst the chaos ... that’s just a testament to the helpfulness and the love people can have for one another without even knowing one another.”

Nunes-Tucker saw the image shortly after the attack while she was searching for Tucker but now can’t find it. If the man was a waiter, she thinks he worked at a brew pub among the many bars and restaurants along Las Ramblas, the lengthy Barcelona promenade that the attackers sped down in a van, mowing down pedestrians.

Tucker was among 13 people killed and scores injured by the van. A bloody getaway and a second attack hours later in the seaside resort of Cambrils left two more people dead.

Nunes-Tucker said her husband would have been among those helping the wounded on Las Ramblas if he had survived.

“He was very brave,” she said. “He loved to help people. That’s what he did.”