Carol Boyle said Michael Riddering, 45, died in the Cappuccino Cafe, area he was to accommodated a accumulation Friday that was traveling to advance at the abode and women's crisis centermost he ran with his wife, Amy Boyle-Riddering.
Riddering accustomed aboriginal and was in the bistro with a bounded pastor; if the advance started, they ran in altered directions, Boyle said. The pastor had Riddering's phone, and alleged Boyle-Riddering to say they were at the bistro and there was gunfire, but again the band went dead.
The pastor hid in the cafe; he survived. It wasn't until a adolescent Christian missionary begin Riddering in the antipathy on Saturday that they knew he was dead.
He leaves abaft four children, two of whom were adopted from Burkina Faso.
"He was acutely well-loved and respected. He wasn't a hypocrite, he wasn't a two-face. He had his allegorical light, and he followed it," Boyle said by buzz from her home in Weston, Florida.
Riddering, who already managed a yacht outfitting aggregation in Cooper City, Florida, and his wife, a clear designer, awash their acreage and backing and confused to the boondocks of Yako to run the Les Ailes de Refuge abode in 2011, Boyle said. The circuitous aswell includes a clinic, classrooms and a home for abused women and widows.
"They were searching advanced to continuing to alive in Burkina Faso and adopting their accouchement together," a account from Sheltering Wings, the missionary alignment that sponsored the orphanage, said. "Tragically and unexpectedly, Mike's activity was cut short. We ache with Amy and her family, and all who knew Mike."
John Anderson, a Sheltering Wings lath member, remembered Riddering as "a wonderful, godly man" who managed to acquisition additional time to advice teams of volunteers from added organizations who dug wells for bounded residents.
"During the Ebola crisis, if it was harder to acquisition humans to do the digging, Mike would go out and accompany them so they could abide accomplishing the work," Anderson said. "And that's backbreaking work. He never chock-full affective and never chock-full helping."
At atomic 28 humans died in the advance by fighters, which triggered a annoy abiding added than 12 hours. The dead, which included victims from 18 altered countries, included the wife and adolescent babe of the Italian bistro owner, two French citizens, two Swiss citizens, and six Canadians.
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