Mr Kouzaris and his university friend Mr Cooper took photos of themselves on the night they were killed The parents of one of two English men killed while on holiday in the US have said their lives have been “shattered”.
The bodies of university friends James Kouzaris, 24, from Northampton, and James Cooper, 25, of Warwick, were found in Sarasota, Florida on Saturday.
It is understood both men had been shot several times. A 16-year-old has been arrested over the killings.
Mr Cooper’s parents said he was “gentle, kind, compassionate, clever and an athlete”.
Prosecutors in Florida have said they intend to charge the arrested boy, Shawn Tyson, as an adult.
Stanley and Sandra Cooper, from Hampton Lucy, near Warwick, had been on holiday with the two men.
“As parents, our lives have been shattered, but through us and his friends and family he will live on,” they said.
Their son once worked as a tennis coach in Warwickshire and played Andy Murray in a junior tournament.
Detectives in Florida have released CCTV pictures of the two men in a Sarasota bar hours before they were killed.
They are also following up a number of leads gleaned from photographs which were recovered from one of their cameras.
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