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21 December 2012

151 Victims of Mass Shootings in 2012: Here Are Their Stories 21DEZ12

ONE WEEK AFTER THE MASS SHOOTINGS AT SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN NEWTOWN, CT HERE ARE THE STORIES OF 151 VICTIMS OF MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE U.S. IN 2012. SOME ARE ALREADY WEARY OF ALL THE NEWS AND ARTICLES AND POSTINGS AND TALK OF THE LATEST TRAGEDY AND WANT TO FOCUS ON CHRISTMAS. CONSIDER THE LIVES SHATTERED BY THESE EVENTS, THOSE WHO WILL NOT BE CELEBRATING HOLIDAYS, BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES. THIS FROM MOTHER JONES.....

Bearing witness to the worst year of gun rampages in modern US history.

—By Mother Jones staff
The media coverage tends to linger on the killers. But as the nation mourns the excruciating losses in Newtown—and finally begins to confront an epidemic of mass shootings amid the worst year for them in modern US history—it is equally important to bear witness to the victims. What follows are portraits of 151 people physically wounded or killed in the rampages of 2012. In addition to the victims of this year's seven mass shootings, we've included the victims of similar but less lethal rampages in a Portland shopping mall, a Milwaukee spa, and a Cleveland high school.
The total number of lives devastated by these attacks far exceeds 151, of course, starting with survivors who narrowly escaped physical harm, such as the unidentified six-year-old girl who played dead and walked out of Sandy Hook Elementary School against all odds. Mother Jones has only included photos of those injured and killed that were shared publicly by the families or survivors themselves, or for which we were granted specific permission. For essential context and findings from our in-depth investigation, also see our guide to mass shootings in America.
     

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

    Newtown, Connecticut — December 14

  • Charlotte Bacon, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Charlotte, a Girl Scout, loved tae kwon do, animals, and the color pink. On the day of her death, she wore a new pink dress and pink boots to school. Source

  • Daniel Barden, 7

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Daniel was the kind of kid who would open doors for adults, his parents recalled. “Our son had so much love to give to this world,” his father said. “He was supposed to have a whole lifetime of bringing that light to the world.” Source

  • Rachel D'Avino, 29

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    D'Avino, a teacher's aide, had been working toward her doctorate at the University of St. Joseph's Institute of Autism and Behavioral Studies. Her boyfriend had been planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve. Source

  • Olivia Engel, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Olivia played tennis and soccer, loved dancing, and took art classes. "She was a great big sister and was always very patient with her three-year-old brother, Brayden," her family said, according to the Associated Press. "Her only crime," a family friend said, "is being a wiggly, smiley six-year-old." Source

  • Josephine Gay, 7

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Family and friends nicknamed Josephine "Boo" after the character in Monsters, Inc. She loved riding her bike, setting up lemonade stands in the summer, and had just celebrated her seventh birthday. Her family has established a fund in her name through the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. Source

  • Natalie Hammond, 40

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Hammond is the lead teacher at Sandy Hook. She was one of two people who survived after being shot at the school. Source

  • Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Hochsprung was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School. A former PTA secretary said she was "always enthusiastic, always smiling, always game to do anything…When I saw her at the beginning of the school year, she was hugging everyone." Hochsprung was one of the first to confront the shooter. Source

  • Dylan Hockley, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Dylan, whose family had moved from the United Kingdom two years earlier, loved playing tag, seeing the moon, and eating chocolate. He reportedly died while wrapped in the arms of his teacher's aide, Anne Marie Murphy, who was killed. Source

  • Madeleine Hsu, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    "Maddy" was described as a shy six-year-old who would "light up" around her neighbor's golden retriever. Source

  • Catherine Hubbard, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    To honor Catherine's love of animals, her family is asking for donations to be made in her name to an animal center. "We are greatly saddened by the loss of our beautiful daughter, Catherine Violet, and our thoughts and prayers are with the other families who have been affected by this tragedy," her parents said in a statement. Source

  • Chase Kowalski, 7

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Chase, an athletic first-grader, ran in community road races and loved baseball, his family wrote in his obituary. Source

  • Nancy Lanza, 52

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Lanza was the mother of shooter Adam Lanza. An avid gun collector, Nancy Lanza was killed in her home before her son continued to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Source

  • Jesse Lewis, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    The morning of the shooting, six-year-old Jesse (right) couldn't wait to go to school because they would be making gingerbread houses. Jesse reportedly ran into the hall when he heard the shooting and died while trying to lead other children to safety. Source

  • Ana Marquez-Greene, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    The daughter of a jazz pianist, Ana "was an incredibly loving and spunky kid," a family friend told the New Haven Register. Source

  • James Mattioli, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    "J" sang in the shower and to himself as he fell asleep, his mother recalled at his funeral. He loved doing yard work with his dad, watching America's Funniest Home Videos with his sister, and wanted to know how old he'd have to be in order to eat a foot-long at Subway. Source

  • Grace Audrey McDonnell, 7

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Seven-year-old Grace dreamed of living on Martha's Vineyard and being a painter when she grew up. Source

  • Anne Marie Murphy, 52

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Murphy, a special-education teacher and mother of four, was found covering a group of children with her body. "She was a happy soul," her mother recalled. "She was a very good daughter, a good mother, a good wife." Dylan Hockley, a six-year-old she had wrapped in her arms, did not survive. Source

  • Emilie Parker, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Emilie was a budding artist who carried her markers and pencils everywhere. Her grandfather recently passed away, and Emilie paid tribute to him by slipping a special card she had drawn into his casket, her father recalled. Source

  • Jack Pinto, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Jack loved school, reading, wrestling, skiing, football (he was a New York Giants fan), playing with friends, and trying to keep up with his big brother. Source

  • Noah Pozner, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Noah and his twin sister, Arielle, celebrated their sixth birthdays less than a month earlier. Arielle, who was in another class, survived. Source

  • Caroline Previdi, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Caroline loved to dance and draw. At her funeral, men wore pink ties in honor of her favorite color. Source

  • Jessica Rekos, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Jessica loved horses, wanted real cowboy boots, and learned to tie her shoes by looking up a YouTube video. She left behind two brothers, one of whom was born in April. Source

  • Avielle Richman, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    "Avie" loved Harry Potter and tried her hand at archery after being inspired by the movie Brave. Her family had moved to Connecticut from California two years earlier. Source

  • Lauren Rousseau, 30

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Rousseau was a substitute teacher at Sandy Hook. Teaching was her lifelong dream, according to her mother. Source

  • Mary Sherlach, 56

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Sherlach (right) had been a school psychologist at Sandy Hook since 1994. Source

  • Victoria Soto, 27

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Soto was a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook. "The family was informed that she was trying to shield, get her children into a closet and protect them from harm, and by doing that put herself between the gunman and the children," her cousin told ABC News. "Her life dream was to be a teacher. And her instincts kicked in when she saw there was harm coming to her students." Source

  • Benjamin Wheeler, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    "There was no dimmer switch or governor plate on this kid," Ben's grandfather told the Denver Post. At a recent recital, he ran to and from the piano bench. Ben's nine-year-old brother was also at Sandy Hook Elementary on the day of the shooting but survived. Source

  • Allison Wyatt, 6

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Allison "was a sweet, creative, funny, intelligent little girl who had an amazing life ahead of her," her family said in a statement. "Our world is a lot darker now that she's gone. We love and miss her so much." Source

  • Identity unknown

    Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    A second woman survived her wounds from the Newtown shooting, but no information about her has been released yet. Source

    • Clackamas Town Center Shooting

    Portland, Oregon — December 11

  • Steve Forsyth, 45

    Clackamas Town Center Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Forsyth left behind a wife, son, and stepdaughter. "Dad never had a hard time making friends, but what was most impressive was he never had a hard time keeping them," his stepdaughter said at his funeral, which was attended by more than 2,200 people. Source

  • Kristina Shevchenko, 15

    Clackamas Town Center Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Shevchenko lives with her parents in Portland. Source

  • Cindy Ann Yuille, 54

    Clackamas Town Center Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Yuille, a hospice nurse, was Christmas shopping when she was shot. Source

    • Brookfield Spa Shooting

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin — October 21

  • Zina Haughton, 42

    Brookfield Spa Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Haughton, the wife of the shooter, worked at the spa. She had been granted a four-year restraining order against her husband three days before the shooting. Source

  • Maelyn Lind, 38

    Brookfield Spa Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Lind was a hairsylist at the Azana Spa. She had a husband and four children. Source

  • Cary Robuck, 35

    Brookfield Spa Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Robuck worked at the spa. She was the mother of a high school student. Source

  • Identity unknown

    Brookfield Spa Shooting
    Source

  • Identity unknown

    Brookfield Spa Shooting
    Source

  • Identity unknown

    Brookfield Spa Shooting
    Source

  • Identity unknown

    Brookfield Spa Shooting
    Source

    • Minnesota Workplace Shooting

    Minneapolis, Minnesota — September 27

  • Keith Basinski, 50

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Keith Basinski was a father of three and a UPS driver who was shot while standing on the loading dock with Ronald Edberg, a graphic designer. Neither Edberg nor Basinski survived. Source

  • Jacob Beneke, 34

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Friends told Minnesota Public Radio that Beneke was a graphic designer at the workplace where he was fatally shot, and a married father who loved to garden. Source

  • Rami Cooks, 62

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Did not survive.
    "Rami was the epitome of a family man who enjoyed nothing more than spending his free time with loved ones," his family said in a statement. Source

  • Ronald Edberg, 58

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Ronald Edberg was a father and described as a talented graphic designer. He was shot while standing on the loading dock with UPS driver Keith Basinski. Basinski did not survive. Source

  • Reuven Rahamim, 61

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Rahamim (far right) started Accent Signage Systems, which employed 28 people in making interior signs with a process he had patented. Source

  • Eric Rivers, 42

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Rivers was shot several times and was in critical condition for nearly two weeks before he died. Source

  • John Souter

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Souter was the director of operations at Accent Signage Systems. The shooting left him recovering in critical condition. Source

  • Identity unknown

    Minnesota Workplace Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Source

    • Sikh Temple Shooting

    Oak Creek, Wisconsin — August 5

  • Paramjit Kaur, 41

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Kaur was the mother of two and worked at a medical devices firm. Source

  • Brian Murphy

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Lt. Murphy was a police officer who responded to the shooting. He was shot nine times but survived. Source

  • Satwant Singh Kaleka, 65

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Singh Kaleka, a founder of the Oak Creek temple, tried to stab the shooter after being shot in the leg. Source

  • Suveg Singh Khattra, 84

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Singh Khattra had moved to the United States with his wife eight years earlier to join their son. On most days he went to the temple to pray. Source

  • Prakash Singh, 39

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Singh was an assistant priest at the temple. Source

  • Punjab Singh, 65

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Singh is a traveling Sikh priest from India. Singh's two sons came to the United States to be with him after he was shot in the face. As of late August, Singh was in a coma. His current condition is unclear. Source

  • Ranjit Singh, 49

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Ranjit Singh (right) and his brother Sita Singh, who was also killed, were both Sikh priests. Source

  • Santokh Singh, 50

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Singh is a traveling Sikh priest from India. Singh's two sons and wife came to the United States while he recovered from a gunshot that ripped through his torso. Source

  • Sita Singh, 41

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Did not survive.
    Singh was Ranjit Singh's brother. Both were Sikh priests. Source

  • Identity unknown

    Sikh Temple Shooting
    Injured but survived.
    Source

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

      Aurora, Colorado — July 20

    • Petra Anderson, 22

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Anderson, an aspiring music professor, was shot in the arm and in the head. Source

    • Adan Avila, 20

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Avila was shot in the leg while trying to shield his wife, who survived and was not wounded. Image: TheDenverChannel.com/7NEWS. Source

    • Brandon Axelrod, 30

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Axelrod crouched with his wife of two weeks, Denise Traynom, and their friend Joshua Nowlan during the shooting. All three survived. Axelrod was injured in the knee and ankle. Source

    • Stephen Barton, 22

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Barton stopped at the Aurora theater during a cross-country bicycling trip from Virginia Beach to San Francisco. After surviving the shooting, he deferred a Fulbright teaching scholarship to advocate gun control. Source

    • Tony Billapando

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Billapando, who was pregnant at the time, was protected by her husband and escaped with minor scratches. Her husband, Bryson, also survived. Source

    • Christina Blanche

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Blanche, an Iraq War vet, was at the theater celebrating Alex Sullivan's 27th birthday. A bullet passed through one of her legs and lodged in the other knee. Sullivan was killed. Source

    • Jonathan Blunk, 26

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Blunk, a Navy vet, worked for a flooring company and lived in Aurora. According to his girlfriend, who survived the shooting, he died while trying to shield her. Source

    • Alexander Boik, 18

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Boik had recently graduated from Gateway High School, where he was a catcher on the baseball team through his junior year. He had planned to start art school in the fall. Boik was at the theater with his girlfriend, who survived. A friend told CBS Denver that they were the "perfect couple." Source

    • Andrew Bowers, 19

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Bowers, a college basketball player, managed to escape with a scrapes on his forehead and knees. Source

    • Jarell Brooks, 18

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Brooks shielded a mother and her two young children, risking his life to get them safely out of the theater. He was shot in the thigh. Source

    • Maria Carbonell, 33

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Carbonell, a mother of three, described her injuries as "superficial." Source

    • Alejandra Cardona-Lamas

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Cardona-Lamas, a recent high school graduate, received four holes in her legs from shrapnel and projectiles. Source

    • Jesse Childress, 29

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Childress was an Air Force reservist. Source

    • Gordon Cowden, 51

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Cowden, a real estate appraiser, was at the theater with his two teenage children, who escaped unharmed. Source

    • Louis Duran, 18

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Duran, who had been sitting at the front of the theater, was shot in his head, leg, arm, and chest. Source

    • Craig Enlund

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • Alex Espinosa, 23

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Espinosa escaped with his girlfriend, aunt, and friends through an emergency exit. He was grazed in the arm. Source

    • Evan Farris

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • Jacqueline Fry, 23

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Fry, a recent business college graduate and an aspiring nurse, was hit in the legs by shrapnel from a tear gas cannister. Source

    • Nickelas Gallup, 31

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Gallup was shot near his left eye. Afterward, Gallup lost his job as the manager of a restaurant because it was too close to the theater. Source

    • Yousef Gharbi, 16

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Gharbi, a high school student, was shot in the head and hit by shrapnel in his upper body. Source

    • Jessica Ghawi, 24

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Ghawi was an aspiring sportswriter and blogger. She had recently survived another mass shooting in Toronto. Source

    • Zachary Golditch, 17

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Golditch, a Colorado State football recruit, told ESPN that the shrapnel wounds in the side of his neck felt like "fireworks blew up in my ear." Source

    • Munirih Gravelly, 31

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Gravelly, an Air Force reservist, lost her friend, fellow reservist Jesse Childress, when he threw himself in front of her. Source

    • Eugene Han

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Han was shot in the knee and hip. His best friend and girlfriend moved him and another injured friend to the emergency exit. Source

    • Gage Hankins, 18

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Hankins was with a group of friends and his brother at the theater. He was wounded in the arm but insisted that the medics try to help others who were more seriously hurt, his uncle told USA Today. Source

    • Amanda Hernandez-Memije

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • McKayla Hicks, 17

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Hicks was hit in the face by a bullet that entered from the theater next door. She expects to recover and return to play volleyball, basketball, and soccer. Hicks later returned to the theater to see The Dark Knight Rises again. "I wanted to see the scene that I got hit at," she said. The bullet will remain in her jaw permanently because doctors say removing it will cause too much nerve damage. Source

    • Jay Jenkins

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • Nathan Juranek

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • Jasmine Kennedy, 19

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Kennedy was shot in the leg; doctors had to insert a steel rod to repair her shattered tibia. Source

    • Marcus Kizzar

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • John Larimer, 27

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Larimer was a Navy sailor based at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora. Source

    • Patricia Legarreta, 25

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Legarreta protected her four-year-old daughter, Azeria, receiving shrapnel wounds in her leg. She did not notice her wounds until they had escaped the theater. Both her four-month-old son, Ethan Rohrs, and her daughter also survived. Source

    • Kelly Lewis

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • Brent Lowak, 27

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Lowak, who was training to become an EMT, was applying pressure to a leg wound on his best friend, Jessica Ghawi, when she was fatally shot in the head. A bullet entered Lowak's buttocks and went into his shoulder. Since he did not have health insurance, friends, family, and supporters have raised money to pay for his multiple surgeries. He plans to finish his degree in fire science next year. Source

    • Ryan Lumba, 17

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Lumba had planned on attending Western State Colorado University in the fall, but had to postpone due to the 18 severe abdominal wounds that left him in critical condition. Source

    • Matthew McQuinn, 27

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      McQuinn was at the theater with his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler. He threw himself in front of Yowler during the attack. Source

    • Micayla Medek, 23

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Medek was enrolled in the Community College of Aurora. The Los Angeles Times reported that friends tried to carry her out of the theater after she was wounded, but paramedics said there was nothing they could do to help her. Source

    • Caleb Medley, 23

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Medley, an aspiring comedian, sustained a head wound that put him in critical condition. His wife, Katie, gave birth to their first child days later. Source

    • Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Veronica was the youngest person killed in the shooting. She was at the theater with her mother, Ashley Moser, who was shot and paralyzed. Source

    • Ashley Moser, 25

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Moser's six-year-old daughter, Veronica, was killed in the shooting. Her boyfriend, Jamison Toews, was injured but survived. Moser, who was eight weeks pregnant, suffered a miscarriage while hospitalized for a spinal wound that left her legs paralyzed. Source

    • Stefan Moton

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Moton had a severed spine. As of August 2012, he was paralyzed and needed ventilators to breathe, according to USA Today. Source

    • Joshua Nowlan, 32

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Nowlan, who hid behind theater seats with his friends Brandon Axelrod and Denise Traynom, was wounded in the leg and arm. All three survived. Image: 9NEWS (KUSA). Source

    • Pierce O'Farill, 28

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      O'Farrill, who was at the theater with his friend Carey Rottman, recalled praying during the shooting. He was wounded in his chest, arm, and foot. Source

    • Prodeo Patria, 14

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Patria, a high school student, was at the theater with his father and mother. He did not tell his father that he'd been shot in the back until he had helped evacuate another injured person. Patria's mother, Rita Paulina, was shot three times and survived. Patria's father also escaped. Source

    • Rita Paulina, 45

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Paulina was at the theater with her son and husband. Her left leg and arm were wounded. Her son, Prodeo Patria, was shot in the back, but survived. Her husband also escaped. Source

    • Bonnie Kate Pourciau, 18

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Pourciau (right) was on a cross-country road trip when she and a friend stopped in Aurora. Another moviegoer carried her out of the theater after she was wounded badly in the legs. Source

    • Christopher Rapoza, 28

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Rapoza, the bassist for a Brooklyn punk band, was on vacation with his girlfriend. His girlfriend escaped unharmed. Rapoza was grazed on the back. Source

    • Carli Richards, 22

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      When a tear gas canister landed in front of Richards, a Navy veteran, she ran outside the theater with her boyfriend. In the parking lot, she realized she had been wounded 22 times by shotgun pellets in the back, arm, and legs. Source

    • Ethan Rohrs, 4 months

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Along with his four-year-old sister, Azeria, four-month-old Ethan was protected from the gunfire by his mother, Patricia Legarreta. He received minor injuries, and his sister also survived. Source

    • Dion Roseborough, 39

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Roseborough, a Navy vet and supervisor for the Postal Office, received multiple wounds and was comatose for a short time after the shooting. Source

    • Carey Rottman, 27

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      After Rottman (left), a former Winona State University football player, escaped the theater with a gunshot wound to his leg, a teenager named Stephanie Rodriguez used her belt as a tourniquet on his thigh. Source

    • Lucas Smith, 26

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Smith, a former minister, was hit by shotgun pellets in his leg. Source

    • Heather Snyder

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Source

    • Farrah Soudani, 22

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Soudani had been waitressing, saving up money to study massage. When she was shot in the abdomen, her boyfriend's father, Mike White, wrapped his T-shirt around her wounds and covered her with his body. Her boyfriend, Michael White, was shot in the shoulder and lung. Source

    • Catherine Streib, 16

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Streib, a Girl Scout and student at Overland High School, was injured during the shooting. Source

    • Alex Sullivan, 27

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Sullivan was at the theater celebrating his 27th birthday, two days before his first wedding aniversary. Source

    • Alexander Teves, 24

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Teves had recently earned a master’s in counseling psychology from the University of Denver. Source

    • Jamison Toews

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Toews was at the theater with his with pregnant girlfriend, Ashley Moser, and her daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan. "I saw what you never want to see and it was Veronica's lifeless body lying there," Toews told the Mail Online. Source

    • Denise Traynom, 24

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Traynom had been married to Brandon Axelrod for just two weeks. Traynom, Axelrod, and their friend Joshua Nowlan huddled together during the shooting. All three survived. Source

    • Marcus Weaver, 41

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Weaver, a manager at a nonprofit thrift store, was shot twice. He tried to cover his friend, Rebecca Wingo, but she was fatally wounded. Source

    • Michael White, 33

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      When the shooting began, White's father, Mike, yelled at his son and his son's girlfriend, Farrah Soudani, to crouch. White's father wrapped Soudani's abdominal wounds with his T-shirt and covered her body with his own. White's father survived. A bullet entered White's shoulder and went through his lung. Soudani was badly injured but survived. Source

    • David Williams, 37

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Williams told the Daily Beast that he saw Holmes' silhouette at the front of the theater when he first entered but believed it was part of the show. He saw a father carry his wounded daughter out of the theater as he fled. Source

    • Rebecca Wingo, 32

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Wingo, who worked for the Air Force as a translator and spoke Mandarin, was a mother of two. Source

    • Allie Young, 19

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      After Young was shot in the neck, her friend, Stephanie Davies, applied pressure to the wound to keep her alive. Young and Davies told the BBC that they played dead when the shooter passed by them. Source

    • Jansen Young, 21

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Young had earned an associate's degree in animal science in June. She was at the theater with her boyfriend, Jon Blunk, who shoved her under a seat when the shooting started. He died. Source

    • Samantha Yowler, 26

      Aurora Movie Theater Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Yowler's boyfriend, Matthew McQuinn, and her brother, Nick Yowler, tried to shield her. She was shot in the knee. McQuinn was killed, but the brother survived. Source

      • Seattle Cafe Shooting

      Seattle, Washington — May 30

    • Joe "Vito" Albanese, 52

      Seattle Cafe Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Albanese was at the café with his best friend, Drew Keriakedes. The two performed in the band God's Favorite Beefcake. Source

    • Drew Keriakedes, 45

      Seattle Cafe Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Keriakedes was at the café with his best friend, Joe Albanese. The two performed in the band God's Favorite Beefcake. Source

    • Don Largen, 57

      Seattle Cafe Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Largen was an urban planner who played the saxophone. Source

    • Kimberly Layfield, 38

      Seattle Cafe Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Originally from Georgia, Layfield was an aspiring actress. Source

    • Gloria Leonidas, 52

      Seattle Cafe Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Leonidas, a wife and mother of two, was shot in a parking lot a half hour after the café shooting. She was a former electrician, served on a health foundation board, and was a gourmet cook. Source

    • Leonard Meuse, 46

      Seattle Cafe Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Meuse was a chef at Café Racer, where the shooting took place. He had given up a position at the Univertsity of Washington to go to pastry school. He was shot in the jaw and armpit. Source

      • Oikos University Shooting

      Oakland, California — April 2

    • Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, 38

      Oikos University Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Bhutia, an immigrant from India, had been studying nursing and working nights as a custodian at the San Francisco airport, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Source

    • Doris Chibuko, 40

      Oikos University Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Chibuko was two months short of graduating; she had planned to become a nurse. She loved to cook and worked part time at a mental-health rehabilitation center. She left behind a husband and three daughters aged three to eight. Source

    • Sonam Chodon, 33

      Oikos University Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Chodon was a former nursing student at the school, police told the San Francisco Chronicle. Before immigrating from India, she had worked for the Tibetan government in exile's department of education. Source

    • Dawinder Kaur, 19

      Oikos University Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      The shooter entered Kaur's classroom, ordered students to stand against the wall, and opened fire. Kaur, an Army reservist, helped a friend who had fallen on the floor escape. Kaur was shot in the right arm. Source

    • Grace Eunhae Kim, 23

      Oikos University Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Kim had been studying nursing at Oikos while working at restaurants. According to her brother Paul, she hoped to one day to start her own airline and to take her mother traveling around the world. "She was the best sister, my best friend," he said at her memorial service. Source

    • Grace Kirika, 43

      Oikos University Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Kirika was a nursing student at Oikos at the time of the shooting. Source

    • Katleen Ping, 24

      Oikos University Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Ping worked as a secretary at Oikos and left behind a four-year-old son. Her family held a memorial service without her body, since the coroner could only release it to her husband, who was in the Philippines at the time. Source

    • Ahmad Javid Sayeed, 36

      Oikos University Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Originally from Kabul, Afghanistan, Sayeed had only been a nursing student at Oikos for three months before being shot in his shoulder when One Goh entered his classroom. Though he realized he was bleeding, Sayeed was able to escape with two other students and hide in another room. Source

    • Judith Seymour, 53

      Oikos University Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Born in Guyana, Seymour was the mother of two adult children and was engaged to be married. She had been studying to obtain her nursing license. "Every decision she made in life, every course she took, the first consideration and No. 1 priority was her children," her fiancé told ABC 7. Source

    • Lydia Sim, 21

      Oikos University Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Sim (right) had been studying nursing with the goal of going to medical school and becoming a pediatrician. "She could brighten up the whole room," her younger brother, Daniel, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Source

      • Chardon High School Shooting

      Cleveland, Ohio — February 27

    • Demetrius Hewlin, 16

      Chardon High School Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Known as "D" by friends and family, Hewlin was shot in the back of the head when sitting in the Chardon High School cafeteria with friends. He enjoyed working out, playing computer games, reading books, and volunteering at a Habitat for Humanity resale shop. Source

    • Russell King, Jr., 17

      Chardon High School Shooting
      Did not survive.
      King was shot in the back while waiting for a bus to a vocational school. He loved to fish, camp, and hunt with family, and had been studying alternative energy technology. Source

    • Nate Mueller, 16

      Chardon High School Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Mueller used to be friends with the shooter in middle school. He escaped the shooting with a grazed ear. Source

    • Daniel Parmertor, 16

      Chardon High School Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Parmertor was waiting for a bus in the Chardon High School cafeteria when he was fatally shot. He had been studying computer networks and enjoyed video games and snowboarding. Source

    • Joy Rickers, 18

      Chardon High School Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Rickers was one of three people who was wounded but survived the Chardon High School shooting. Source

    • Nick Walczak, 17

      Chardon High School Shooting
      Injured but survived.
      Walczak was shot four times when sitting in the Chardon High School cafeteria with friends, his mother told ABC News. A teacher, Joseph Ricci, pulled him into another room and cared for him until paramdedics arrived. Walczak was initially paralyzed from the chest down, and is undergoing physical therapy. Source

      • Georgia Health Spa Shooting

      Norcross, Georgia — February 21

    • Keum-hee Baek, 61

      Georgia Health Spa Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Baek (left) and Keum-sook Baek were the shooter's sisters. Source

    • Byung-ok Kang, 64

      Georgia Health Spa Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Kang (right) was Keum-hee Baek's husband. A neighboring store owner who knew Kang said he'd lived in the area for about 15 years and was well known in the community. Source

    • Keum-sook Kim, 57

      Georgia Health Spa Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Baek (left) and Keum-hee Baek were the shooter's sisters. Image: Sarah Bakhtiari/Norcross Patch. Source

    • Tae-yeol Kim, 55

      Georgia Health Spa Shooting
      Did not survive.
      Kim (right) was Keum-sook Baek's husband. Image: Sarah Bakhtiari/Norcross Patch. Source

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