Survivor of Deadly 2006 Amish Schoolhouse Shooting Was 23

A 23-year-old survivor of the 2006 Pennsylvania school shooting that took place at an Amish schoolhouse has died, nearly 18 years after the shooting occurred.

On Tuesday, Sept. 3, the family of Rosanna S. King announced that she died earlier that day at her home in Paradise, Penn., a rural Amish town in Lancaster County. According to an obituary from Furman Home for Funerals in Leola, her parents were Christian E. King and Mary Elizabeth Stoltzfus King, and she was a member of the Old Order Amish Church.

Philip Furman, a funeral director at the home, confirmed to the Associated Press that King was one of the victims who was shot at the West Nickel Mines Amish School in October 2006.

King was 6 years old at the time of the shooting, and was attending school at West Nickel Mines when an armed shooter named Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk truck driver, arrived at the school and took several hostages, the outlet reported. Although he ordered several people in the schoolhouse to leave, he took 10 young girls hostage, including King. He shot the girls, killing five of them, before killing himself as police entered the small building.

According to the local outlet LancasterOnline, King was considered one of the most severely injured survivors of the shooting. The outlet reported she was shot in the head, which left her with severe brain trauma and was unable to talk or walk. She used a feeding tube to eat and was dependent on others for care.

Although she was taken off life support two days after the shooting at her family’s request, she made a partial recovery, and LancasterOnline reported over a decade ago that she attended an Amish school for children with special needs.

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The shooter’s mother, Terri Roberts, often used to visit with King, according to the AP. In a 2013 interview with the outlet, she called King a “beautiful young woman,” but said that “life is not as it should’ve been for this little girl.”

“So my mind will never forget the hardship that day has caused in many people’s lives,” she said at the time.

In the same 2013 article, Rosanna’s father opened up about how many members of the local Amish community turned to forgiveness when it came to the shooter and his family.

“We have a lot of work to do to live up to what we are bragged up to be,” he said 11 years ago. “Everyone was talking about this forgiveness thing, and I felt that was putting a lot of weight on our shoulders to live up to that.”

The schoolhouse was torn down 10 days after the shooting, and the community built a new school nearby, according to the AP.

King’s obituary states she will be buried in Bart Cemetery following her funeral on Friday, Sept. 6. She is survived by her parents and four siblings.