{"id":22669,"date":"2024-01-15T02:06:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22669"},"modified":"2024-01-15T02:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:06:25","slug":"iowa-principal-dies-from-injuries-sustained-in-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22669","title":{"rendered":"Iowa principal dies from injuries sustained in school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The principal of a school in a small Iowa town who was injured during a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/least-one-dead-iowa-school-shooting-abc-news-2024-01-04\/\"><u>shooting on campus<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;at the beginning of the month died on Sunday, his family said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Dan Marburger, had been principal at Perry High School since 1995, suffered serious injuries on Jan. 4 as he helped pupils and staff exit the school after a 17-year-old student opened fire, killing a sixth-grader and wounding five people, including Marburger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;After 10 days, he lost his battle and this tragedy took his life,&#8221; read the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/dan-marburgers-healing-and-recovery\"><u>GoFundMe page<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;created in the shooting&#8217;s aftermath to help his family with medical costs. &#8220;All of the Marburger family and the entire Perry Community will forever be touched by the selflessness of Mr. Marburger.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The suspect, a student at the high school, was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound by responding officers, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Iowa shooting, on the district&#8217;s first day of classes in 2024, is part of a national epidemic of gun violence in U.S. schools that has worsened in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Perry, a town of about 7,900, is about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Des Moines, the state&#8217;s capital city. The town&#8217;s middle and high schools share a single campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/iowa-principal-dies-injuries-sustained-school-shooting-2024-01-14\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The principal of a school in a small Iowa town who was injured during a&nbsp;shooting on campus&nbsp;at the beginning of the month died on Sunday, his family said. Dan Marburger, had been principal at Perry High School since 1995, suffered serious injuries on Jan. 4 as he helped pupils and staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[23259,2210,25889,4387,1530,4140],"class_list":["post-22669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-campus","tag-dead","tag-lowa","tag-principal","tag-shooting","tag-wounded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22671,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions\/22671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}