California student dies in Paris attacks

Show Caption Hide Caption Calif. Student Killed in Paris Terror Attacks A Southern California college student killed in the Paris terror attacks was in a restaurant with another Long Beach State student when she was fatally shot and carried out on a stretcher. (Nov. 14)

Correction: An earlier version of this story had the wrong age and college year for Nohemi Gonzalez.

A college student from California was among those killed in the terror attacks in Paris, California State University in Long Beach said Saturday.

Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, a senior, was one of the at least 129 killed in the multiple attacks late Friday that also injured more than 350. In a statement on Facebook, California State University in Long Beach said Gonzalez was enrolled there and was attending Strate College of Design in Paris during a semester abroad.

The university provided no additional details on where or how Gonzalez was killed other than to say she died "during the attacks in and around Paris." The California school was planning a vigil to mourn Gonzalez for 4 p.m. Sunday.

"I'm deeply saddened by the news of the passing of ... Gonzalez," university president Jane Close Conoley said Saturday. "Our university stands with our nearly 80 foreign exchange students from France as they struggle with this tragedy."

Dominique Sciamma, director of Strate College of Design in Paris, also issued a statement on Facebook. "I had hoped with all my heart that no one from our community would be affected by these criminal acts. Unfortunately, this was not the case."

Sciamma said other students from the Paris design school had been hurt, "but are now out of danger."

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris joined them in expressing grief for Gonzales on Saturday. In a statement, she wrote, "On behalf of the California Department of Justice, I extend my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Nohemi Gonzales, whose young life was among those so tragically cut short by reprehensible acts of terrorism in Paris yesterday. We stand with Nohemi’s loved ones and the entire California State University, Long Beach family, as they grieve this loss and seek solace in this tragic hour. We are all Parisians today.”