The 60-year-old cousin of New York Giants’ safety Nat Berhe has been pictured for the first time since being killed in the San Bernardino massacre four days ago.

Isaac Amanios, who was born in Eritrea in 1955 and lived through the country’s brutal war of independence, fled his home country to escape violence and came to America in 2000.

A father-of-three, relatives said Amanios was looking forward to seeing all of his children graduate college, which they are all currently attending.

According to the LA Times, Amanios leaves behind wife Hiwet, who works as registered nurse at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.

The health department worker is also survived by sons Bruk and Joseph and daughter, Milka.

Abraham Amanios, Isaac’s brother, said: ‘Nowhere is safe. It makes you think that wherever I go in public… there is the chance of being threatened or attacked.’

Meanwhile Berhe paid tribute to Amanios the day after his death, calling him a ‘great human being.’

He later tweeted: ‘Just got word that one of my cousins was among the 14 killed yesterday, I’m so sick right now.

‘The true terror is that this keeps happening. I still can’t believe it. Take a moment to think of the families hurting right now.’

Amanios was one of 14 people killed by terrorist gunmen Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik at Inland Regional Center during a staff Christmas party this week.

Farook and his wife are thought to have viewed extreme material and Farook may have been in contact with two Al Qaeda-affiliated groups before launching the attack.

The pair burst into the center at around 11am on Wednesday morning before opening fire on staff who had just given them a baby shower for their daughter just six months before.

As well as the 14 killed, another 19 were wounded before Farook and Malik fled in a black SUV.

The couple were later discovered around a mile and a half from the center by a police officer carrying out a traffic stop, before opening fire once more, wounding the cop.

They then threw pipe bombs, which failed to detonate, out of the windows of their car before dying in a hail of bullets as heavily armed officers closed in.

It was initially thought that the massacre, the worst in the U.S. since the Sandy Hook school shootings, could have been related to a workplace argument Farook was thought to have had with a colleague on the day of the killings.

However, yesterday the FBI announced it was investigating the murders as an act of terror, and today President Obama used the same terminology to describe the attacks.

Authorities are believed to be looking at the possibility that the couple were radicalized online before carrying out their attacks as ‘lone wolves’, independent of any larger terror cell.

Another possibility, raised by friends of Farook, is that he was radicalized by his wife who was born in Pakistan but lived in Saudi Arabia before the pair met on a dating site.

They met in person for the first time in 2013 before getting married. Malik then came to the U.S. in 2014, and the couple settled in California.

Friends of Farook, who attended mosque with him, have raised the prospect that he may have turned to extremism as little as four weeks ago after he stopped going to prayers.

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