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Pennsylvania Amish woman dies after being severely injured in schoolhouse shooting 18 years ago [Video]

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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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.

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