A longtime friend of Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, the Old Dominion University ROTC instructor who was viciously gunned down by a convicted ISIS supporter , offered an emotional on-air tribute to his late college buddy. “He was a beautiful soul,” Carlos Ortiz, 41, told CNN’s Victor Blackwell in an interview Friday. “He was always smiling. … He put his heart and all his effort into serving the United States Army. You couldn’t ask for a better soldier than Brandon.” The two met as underclassmen at ODU