American journalist Brent Renaud was killed during a recent Russian missile attack in western Ukraine. Two former colleagues describe the type of impact he leaves behind. Renaud, 50, was a filmmaker who had worked for several media outlets, including The New York Times. Before then, he went to SMU and eventually graduated in 1994. That's when he met Thear Sy Suzuki. "He made me feel seen," Suzuki said. "It was a special connection." Suzuki is from Cambodia, and her family lived through the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s. A Catholic-aid organization in Dallas eventually sponsored Suzuki and her family, allowing them to move to America as refugees in 1981. As a sophomore, Suzuki met Renaud, a senior at the time, in the library. She said they "clicked" as friends. "I just didn't have a sense of myself or confidence at the time," Suzuki said. "He asked good questions, and they were questions about who I was and was just interested in getting to know me." https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/brent-renaud-american-journalist-killed-the-world-has-lost-a-great-human-being-friends-of-slain-us-journalist-remember-his-impact-at-smu/287-3d01820b-a54b-4fae-8979-bda60af8161b