I'm still not sure how many have died. GMA did a report from right there in Nickel Mines and said "5 children" have been killed.
Adding in the gunman and that's a total of 6 deaths, which is what the coroner said yesterday, erroneously, before any else had died in the hospitals.
They also said on GMA this morning that one little girl who had been unaccounted for had slipped out with her brother when the monster let the boys leave. Hurray for that little girl!
They've had problems identifying the children and their families, because the parents wouldn't go in the medevac choppers to the hospitals where children were. They were finally convinced to go in vans, but the wrong children were found to be with the wrong parents.
Evidently, there is also something about having images, so photos that were faxed had to be in color or something I didn't quite understand from the reporter. The parents left at the school wouldn't say whose children were whose from the faxes.
It must have been sorted out, if at least the little girl this morning had her parents with her. I understand, in a limited fashion, their huge privacy issues - I just wish some things could be overlooked for the sake of the children's lives and safety today.
It could be very difficult to sort out who the children were, especially if injured so critically. The families are very genetically intertwined and their coloring is pretty homogeneous- light brown to blonde hair and usually blue eyes. And the children are clothed the same with the same hairstyles. They don't have stacks of family photos around to help sort out identities, either.