An Amish woman who was 6 when she was shot by a gunman who killed five other students in a schoolhouse, was severely injured in the shooting 18 years ago and died this week.
An Amish woman who was severely injured by a gunman who killed five girls at a Pennsylvania schoolhouse 18 years ago has died. FOX 29 in Philadelphia reported that 23-year-old Rosanna S. King died at her home Thursday. According to an obituary from Furman Home for Funerals in Leola, Pennsylvania, a funeral will take place at her home in the farming community of Paradise Friday. King was among the victims shot at the West Nickel Mines Amish School in October 2006.
While barricaded, Roberts tied up 10 girls and shot them before killing himself when police closed in. King was 6 years old at the time and was part of an Old Order Amish Church community. Among the survivors shot, King was considered the most severely injured. She was shot in the head, which left her unable to speak and required her to be fed through a tube.
The station reported King depended on others to take care of her and move her around. A year after the shooting, King’s family issued a statement about her progress, adding 'the hardest part has been to see her suffer.' The Amish community also released a statement after the school massacre. WHO IS THE ALLEGED GEORGIA SCHOOL SHOOTER?
To the casual observer, 'life goes on' in Nickel Mines, with its daily and seasonal demands of work, school, births, family and church, but for the families each day brings with it the pain, grief and questions that remind them of their loss,' the group wrote. Ten days after the shooting, the schoolhouse was torn down, and a new one was built nearby.
King’s death comes a day after 14-year-old Colt Gray allegedly opened fire at a Georgia high school, killing two students and two teachers.
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