A young Amish woman who was severely wounded in a deadly 2006 shooting that killed five of her schoolmates has died at the age of 23.
Rosanna King died Tuesday, according to an obituary published by Furman Home for Funerals in Lancaster County, Pa. Her official cause of death was not announced.
King will be buried Friday in Bart Cemetery, following a funeral at her home in the town of Paradise.
King was just 6 years old when she was shot in the head inside West Nickel Mines Amish School in October 2006. A 32-year-old man, Charles Carl Roberts IV, had broken into the one-room schoolhouse and tied up the 10 girls in class.
Roberts shot all 10 girls, killing five, before police burst in and Roberts died by suicide. Of the five wounded victims, King was injured most severely.
After two days in the hospital following the shooting, King’s family asked for her to be taken off life support and sent home, according to Lancaster Online. She suffered severe brain trauma, and her survival was seen by some in the Amish community as a miracle.
However, King was left unable to speak and required constant care from her family. One of her other caregivers was Terri Roberts, the mother of the shooter, who was publicly forgiven by the Amish community.
“Beautiful young woman, but life is not as it should’ve been for this little girl,” Roberts told The Associated Press in 2013. “So my mind will never forget the hardship that day has caused in many people’s lives.”
Roberts left four suicide notes for his wife and two children. In the letters, he said he was tormented by the death of the couple’s newborn daughter in 1997 and by unsubstantiated memories of molesting multiple young relatives.