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Two Colorado Massacre Victims Have Ties to Wisconsin
Monday, July 23rd, 2012 -- 8:34 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
-The names of all those that were injured and killed in the Colorado massacre were released and there were two people with ties to Wisconsin.
The father of a 27-year-old Wisconsin man that was shot says his son is walking with the help of a walker.
Carey Rottman was shot in the leg. He's a native of Mequon, Wisconsin who studied business at Winona State in Minnesota.
His father Dale Rottman said his son is doing well after surgery.
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is mourning a graduate who was killed in the shooting.
Twenty-seven-year-old John Larimer was a Navy cryptologist based at Buckley Air Force Base. He grew up in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake, Ill.
UW-Whitewater posts on its Facebook page that Larimer was a 2008 graduate, and that he double-majored in political science and history.
The college in southeastern Wisconsin says the news of his death was heartbreaking and that its thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time.
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