California shooting: Christian who fled to US to escape Islamic extremism among 14 victims
Benneta Betbadal left Iran in 1969 during a raft of extremism and eventually moved to Rialto in California where she had three children aged 10, 12 and 15.
Friends say the 46-year-old loved her “job, her community and her country” but most importantly her husband and “large extended family”.
Distraught Ken Paulson, who created a page to raise funds for Ms Betbadal’s children, wrote online: “Benneta left the house Wednesday morning, excited about a presentation she was scheduled to give to her supervisors and coworkers at their annual meeting.
“It is the ultimate irony that her life would be stolen from her that day by what appears to be the same type of extremism that she fled so many years ago.”...