A woman who was severely injured when a gunman killed five girls and wounded her and four other girls during an attack on their one-room Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania, has died 18 years later. 23-year-old Rosanna King, died at her home on Tuesday and a funeral is planned at her home in the farming community of Paradise today. King was among those shot at the West Nickel Mines Amish School in October 2006. Charles Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk truck driver, barricaded himself inside the schoolhouse and let boys and several adults go as he tied up 10 girls and shot them before taking his own life as police closed in. Robert’s mother, Terri, visted Rosanna regularly, having been inspired by the forgiveness the Amish community expressed to her and her family after the attack. Roberts indicated in suicide notes left behind, and during a last call with his wife, that he had been tormented by unsubstantiated memories of having molested a couple of young relatives, and by the death of his newborn daughter in 1997. The schoolhouse was torn down 10 days after the shooting.
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