Man believed to be teaching English overseas killed fighting ISIL in Syria
An Ontario family has learned that their 24-year-old son, who they thought was teaching English overseas, has been killed in Syria while fighting against Islamic State militants.
Nazzareno Tassone was fighting alongside Kurdish forces when he was killed in the city of Raqqa on Dec. 21, according to a letter the Kurdish People’s Defense Units sent his family.
Tassone’s younger sister said the letter was delivered to her mother’s Niagara Falls, Ont., home by police and members of the Toronto Kurdish community on Tuesday.
“It was a bomb drop,” Giustina Tassone told The Canadian Press. “We weren’t too sure what really to do, there was a lot of tears.”