Perry High School shooting incident
Police are called to Perry High School after receiving a report of a shooting in Perry, Iowa. (Credit: ThePerryNews.com / LOCAL NEWS X /TMX)
An Iowa high school principal who was critically injured in a school shooting while protecting students earlier this month has died, according to his family.
Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger died Sunday, his family announced on a GoFundMe page. Caldwell Parrish Funeral Home and Crematory confirmed the death to The Associated Press.
“The news has not yet fully sunk in, but Dan Marburger made the ultimate sacrifice,” the GoFundMe page reads. “Ten days later he lost the battle and this tragedy claimed his life.”
The shooting occurred in the Perry High School cafeteria just after 7:30 a.m. on January 4, the first day students returned from winter break.
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Perry High School Principal Dan Marburger, who was critically injured while protecting a student during the Jan. 4 shooting at the school, died Sunday, his family announced. (AP Photo/Charlie Neighborgal, File)
The shooting killed an 11-year-old junior high school student and injured six others. The gunman, identified as a 17-year-old student at the school, died in an apparent self-inflicted shooting.
Local residents light candles and pray in response to the mass shooting at Perry High School on Thursday, January 4, in Perry, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neighborgal)
The day after the shooting, the state Department of Public Safety said Marburger “clearly acted selflessly and put himself in harm's way to protect students.”
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Marburger's wife, Elizabeth, posted on the family's GoFundMe that her husband died around 8 a.m. Sunday.
A 17-year-old student at the school was identified as the shooter. He was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. (AP Photo/Brion Woolgrave)
“He fought hard and gave us 10 days that we will cherish forever,” she wrote.
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Perry is a town of approximately 8,000 people. The high school is part of the 1,785-student Perry Community School District.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
