Most of the 14 people killed at a holiday banquet in San Bernardino County, California, worked in the same county public health department as the man who showed up with his wife and sprayed the hall with gunfire.

An official list of the dead was released Thursday, and families, friends and co-workers came forward to share some of their stories:

NICHOLAS THALASINOS, 52 - He identified as a Messianic Jew and passionately defended Israel, actively debating about religion in online forums and in person, his friends said.

AURORA BANALES GODOY, 26 - The wife and mother of an infant son was killed in the attack, her aunt, Rebecca Godoy, said in Facebook post that linked to Godoy's own page.

YVETTE VELASCO, 27 - Velasco is being described by her family as smart, motivated and full of life.

BENNETTA BETBADAL, 46 - She was born in Iran in 1969 and came to the United States at age 18 to escape the persecution of Christians after the Iranian Revolution, according to a family statement on a fundraising account set up in her name.

SIERRA CLAYBORN, 27 - Her friends say she stood out as someone who always had an encouraging word.

ROBERT ADAMS, 40 - The Yucaipa resident was known as a loving father and husband who married his high school sweetheart, friends said.

LARRY DANIEL KAUFMAN, 42 - He ran an independently owned coffee shop inside the Inland Regional Center where the county health workers were using a hall for their holiday banquet. The shop's workers included people with developmental disabilities, which can include epilepsy, autism and intellectual disabilities.

MICHAEL RAYMOND WETZEL, 37 - Friends and fellow church members appealed for help supporting his widow, Renee, a stay-at-home mom in Lake Arrowhead, California, and children.

DAMIAN MEINS, 58 - He was passionate about serving his community, a message he took from the priests at his Catholic high school in Riverside and carried throughout his life.

SHANNON JOHNSON, 45 - Johnson was the lone victim who lived in Los Angeles, a long commute to San Bernardino County where he worked as a health inspector.

TIN NGUYEN, 31 - She was supposed to get married in 2017, her family told media outlets.

ISAAC AMANIOS, 60 - He was a supervising environmental health specialist.

HARRY BOWMAN, 46, of Upland.

JUAN ESPINOZA, 50, of Highland.

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