18-year-old Jain’s friends from her dorm, classes and campus groups of UC Berkeley remembered her as a young woman who was sweet, generous, altruistic and intelligent.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Nick Dirks and several of Jain’s friends spoke next to an enlarged photograph of the smiling Jain, a large bouquet of white flowers and Indian, American, and Bangladeshi flags.
“We have lost a precious member of our community, and we are so much the poorer because of it,” Dirk said.
Her friends and teachers appealed to the crowd to remember her for all her accomplishments and friendships, not for her brutal death.
“She was one of the sweetest and most sincere people I had ever met,” Jain’s friend Mackenzie Monroe was quoted as saying by the Berkeleyside.