WELLFLEET, Mass. \u2014 A 26-year-old man who was killed in a shark attack off a Cape Cod beach had been a part-time\u2026<\/b>
\nWELLFLEET, Mass. \u2014 A 26-year-old man who was killed in a shark attack off a Cape Cod beach had been a part-time engineering student who was engaged to be married and loved surfing and other outdoor activities, according to friends and school officials.
Arthur Medici, of Revere, Massachusetts, was bitten by a shark Saturday while boogie boarding off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet and later died at a hospital. He was the state\u2019s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years and the second attack victim this summer on Cape Cod.
A shark was spotted several miles south of Wellfleet on Sunday, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
Medici was a part-time engineering student at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston last spring, the school said in a statement Sunday. It did not provide any other information about his studies including why he wasn\u2019t enrolled in the current semester. The school offered condolences to Medici\u2019s family and friends.
He moved to the U. S. from Brazil two years ago to attend college, friends told WCVB-TV .
A GoFundMe page set up by family and friends to cover funeral costs had raised more than $16,000 as of Sunday afternoon.
\u201cArthur was a very happy young man,\u201d said a posting on the page. \u201cHe loved life, he was an active member of a Christian church, devoting his life to the Lord.\u2026 He loved hiking, biking, surfing and various other sports.\u2026 He was always joyful and willing to help others, even going as far as feeding the homeless.
\u201cHe was happily engaged to a smart, kind-hearted medical student with a bright future,\u201d it continued. \u201cOur lives are never going to be the same without him. His laughter filled our home and he will be greatly missed by us all.\u201d
There also was an outpouring of condolences on his Facebook page .
Medici had worked at The Capital Grille restaurant in Burlington, just outside of Boston, and left the job more than a year ago, restaurant spokesman Rich Jeffers said.
\u201cJust like everybody else, we\u2019re shocked and saddened,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just terrible.\u201d
Medici was attacked around noon as he and a friend were boogie boarding. The friend dragged him ashore, and people on the beach attempted life-saving measures including CPR and applying tourniquets. He was taken to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, where he was pronounced dead.
On Aug. 15, a 61-year-old New York man was severely injured after fighting off a shark off Truro, about 4 miles north of Saturday\u2019s attack. He\u2019s currently recovering in a Boston hospital.
Saturday\u2019s attack was the third fatal shark attack in the world this year, with the other two occurring in Brazil and Egypt, according to Gavin Naylor, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research and curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
There have been 39 confirmed unprovoked shark bites worldwide this year, including 22 in the U. S., most of them on the East Coast, Naylor said.<\/p>\n

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