Picture of  Daniel Perez

Lives Lost

Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, a student from Peru who was studying international relations. He was shot during French class, according to his mother, Betty Cueva.

"Daniel was very close to his mother," an anonymous poster from Woodbridge, "Every time she came to my house, she would tell me stories of how well he was doing in VTech and how proud she was of her son."

His father, Flavio Perez, spoke of the death earlier to RPP radio in Peru.

He lives in Peru and said he was trying to obtain a humanitarian visa from the U.S. consulate here. He is separated from Cueva, who said she had lived in the United States for six years.

A spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Lima said the student’s father “will receive all the attention possible when he applies” for the visa.