Giants’ Nat Berhe: Cousin killed in San Bernardino
New York Giants safety Nat Berhe speaks to the media during training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford, N.J. on Thursday, Aug 6, 2015. Credit: Brad Penner
The shootings in San Bernardino this week have hit the Giants close to home. Safety Nat Berhe, a second-year player who is on injured reserve, tweeted Thursday that he had learned one of the victims in the shooting was a relative.
“Just got word that one of my cousins was among the 14 killed yesterday, I’m so sick right now,” he posted.
The San Bernardino County Sun reported that Isaac Amanios, 60 of Fontana, California, was one of the victims.
Berhe was born in Fontana and graduated from Colton High there. On Wednesday, the day of the shootings, he tweeted a map that showed how close the shooting area was to an office building where he says his parents work.
This is the second mass shooting to personally affect a member of the Giants this year. Wide receiver Corey Washington, who was with the Giants in training camp, knew one of the victims of the June shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and was close friends with his cousin.
“The true terror is that this keeps happening,” Berhe posted on Thursday. “I still can’t believe it. Take a moment to think of the families hurting right now.”
Tom Rock began covering sports for Newsday in 1996 and became its NFL columnist in 2022. He previously was Newsday's Giants beat writer beginning in 2008.
