American businessman Jason Spindler survived the September 11 attacks in New York only to die this week in another act of terror.
Spindler was among those killed Tuesday in a terror attack on a Kenyan hotel compound, the company he founded said Wednesday.
He would have turned 41 next week, his parents told CNN affiliate KTRK.
Men armed with guns and explosives burst into Nairobi’s DusitD2 compound, killing at least 21 people in an attack that lasted hours and ended Wednesday morning, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said.
DusitD2 is an upmarket cluster of shops and hotel facilities in the Kenyan capital, his company said.
Spindler dedicated his life to helping others through his work as a business investment adviser, his parents told KTRK. It’s what brought him to Nairobi, they said.
Spindler was the founder, CEO and managing director of I-DEV International, a strategy and investment advisory firm that attempts to grow businesses in emerging markets.
Long before he started his own company, he worked at 7 World Trade Center in New York, his mother Sarah Spindler said.
He was late to work the morning of September 11 when the planes hit the towers, she said. He was emerging from the subway as the first tower fell, she said.
