New Hampshire native among injured in San Bernardino shooting
Amanda Gaspard of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, was one of the survivors of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, according to The Boston Globe.
Gaspard, 32, is a public health worker for San Bernardino County. She was celebrating at a holiday party along with her coworkers when a married couple opened fire on the group. The shooting killed 14 people, and injured 21 others, including Gaspard.
The shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Mali, were later killed in a shootout with police.
A family member told WMUR that Gaspard was hit three times in the leg during the shooting, and she underwent surgery on Wednesday.
Gaspard’s parents are members of a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vermont, according to a Facebook post from the Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
“Thank you so much for asking for prayers for our daughter, Amanda Gaspard. We are on our way to CA to be with her,’’ said her mother, Diane McLean Gaspard, according to the Northern New England Conference. “One of her first comments to us was that somehow this situation could be used to witness for the Lord. Her faith is so strong. She was praying with other victims while she was lying there bleeding. We Praise God for sparing her life.’’
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Gaspard had worked at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene from 2009 to 2012, according to WMUR.
Hinsdale, a town of about 4,000 people according to the 2010 U.S. Census, is located near the intersection of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
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