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Pennsylvania Amish woman dies after being severely injured in schoolhouse shooting 18 years ago
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.
The shooter, a 32-year-old milk truck driver named Charles Carl Roberts IV, barricaded himself inside the schoolhouse after letting the boys and several adults leave.
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In this photo from June 24, 2018, an Amish family walks barefoot over a country road in the heart of rural Lancaster County, Pa., after concluding a Sunday church service. (iStock)
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.
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An Amish woman who was 6 when she was shot 18 years ago when a gunman opened fire on a schoolhouse and killed five other students, died this week. (iStock)
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.
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“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.
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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.
Thursday, January 9, 2025 1:23PM
Firefighters in Chester, Pennsylvania, dealt with sub-freezing temperatures while battling the flames during a house fire.
CHESTER, Pa. (WPVI) — Firefighters in Chester, Pennsylvania, dealt with sub-freezing temperatures while battling the flames during a house fire.
Authorities say the fire broke out in a three-story twin home at 1 a.m. on Thursday in the 200 block of West 7th Street. It grew to two alarms before firefighters were able to get it under control.
Help arrived from first responders in neighboring communities in Delaware County.
Officials said they don’t know what sparked it yet.
No injuries have been reported.
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pennsylvania State Police Troopers are investigating a burglary in Indiana County where more than $500,000 in cash was recently stolen from a safe inside a home.
State Police from the Punxsutawney barracks say their Troopers are investigating the burglary that happened in the morning hours of New Year’s Eve last week in Canoe Township.
Troopers say a gun safe inside a home was burglarized and a firearm along with stacks of $100 bills worth more than $500,000 were taken.
The stacks of $100 bills were said to be stapled together and State Police provided a photo showing what the bills would look like once unstapled.
Anyone with information about the burglary or the stolen money is asked to call the State Police barracks or the State Police tip line and can also submit information online.
State Police say a cash reward could be provided for information that leads to an arrest.
However, information about how often individual insurance companies deny coverage, and how many cases are appealed and overturned, is scarce and not publicly reported most of the time.
Insurance denials can lead to delays in care and medical debt. State officials estimate that 1 million people in Pennsylvania have some medical debt from unpaid bills and other charges.
In Pennsylvania, residents can file an appeal with the state’s Independent External Review program after they have already completed an internal appeals process with their health insurer.
If they are still denied coverage, people can then submit their case to the state review process, where independent, third-party reviewers analyze individual claims and give a final determination on whether the insurer’s denial was valid or if it must be overturned.
The review program is open to people who have health insurance through a state health plan, the Affordable Care Act Marketplace and other commercial insurance, including employer-sponsored plans offered at private companies, nonprofits and organizations.
People who get insurance from their employer through self-funded plans, in which the employer or company pays health claims directly rather than through the insurance company, are excluded from using the state review program.
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