Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa is remembered as “brilliant,” “kind” and “a wonderful child.”
By Joe Heim Joe Heim Reporter covering a range of topics, including race, white nationalism, schools, student culture, Native American issues Email Bio Follow April 22 at 7:43 PM The mother of a classmate remembered him as “an extremely artistic, sensitive, brilliant and thoughtful child.” A neighbor on his street in Northwest Washington said he expected the boy “to grow up and cure cancer or become secretary general of the United Nations.
The school did not provide information about where in Sri Lanka Kieran was killed or how the school learned of his death. At least 311 people died and more than 500 were injured following explosions at churches and hotels. The Sri Lankan government has accused a local Islamist extremist group, the National Thowheed Jamaath, of plotting and carrying out the bombing campaign.
“He was her world,” said the mother of a classmate, who, like others familiar with the child, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. Another parent at the school remembered that when Kieran moved to Sri Lanka in fourth grade, the entire class Facetimed him to say good night as he headed to bed.
Another neighbor described Kieran as having lots of friends and being “vivacious, kind and exceedingly polite. He almost had an old soul.”
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