Student at Long Beach State killed in Paris terror attacks
Heavily armed New York City police officers stand guard across the street from the French consulate on New York's Fifth Ave.
LONG BEACH, Calif. >> 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.
School officials said Saturday the friend reported that Nohemi Gonzalez was carried out of the restaurant on a stretcher.
A spokesman described Gonzalez as buoyant and extremely energetic.
Gonzalez was a senior studying design at California State University, Long Beach.
The 23-year-old was on a university exchange program at Strate College of Design in France.
The university was notified of her death by French school officials and confirmed the death with her parents.
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The school president issued a statement saying she was saddened by the death of Gonzalez.
Gonzales lived in the Los Angeles suburb of El Monte.
