Staff Writer
April 5, 2009
Police in Binghamton, N.Y. have released a list of those killed in a deadly shootout Friday. All 13 lost their lives when a gunman opened fire at the American Civic Association then killed himself.
The dead represent seven nations besides the United States. Many of them were at the American Civic Association on Front Street taking classes to learn English, hoping to become American citizens. Police say Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong used two handguns registered to him as he shot 13 victims then himself.
According to police, the following people were killed:
Parveen Nln Ali, 26, Binghamton, NY (Native of Pakistan)
Dolores Yigal, 53, Binghamton, NY (Native of Philippines)
Marc Henry Bernard, 44, Endicott, NY (Native of Haiti)
Maria Sonia Bernard, 46, Endicott, NY (Native of Haiti)
Li Guo, 47, Binghamton, NY (Native of China)
Hong Xiu Mao, 35, Greene, NY (Native of China)
Lan Ho, 39, Binghamton, NY (Native of Vietnam)
Hai Hong Zhong, 54, Endwell, NY (Native of China)
Maria Zobniw, 60, Binghamton, NY (American)
Roberta Bobby King, 72, Binghamton, NY (American)
Almir O. Alves, 43, Unknown, (Native of Brazil)
Jiang Ling, 22, Endicott, NY (Native of China)
Layla Khalil, 57, Binghamton, NY (Native of Iraq)
Jiverly A. Wong, 41, Johnson City, NY (Native of Vietnam)
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