At Least 43 People Die As Result Of Snowstorm That Hit East
At least 43 people have died as a result of the mammoth snowstorm that pounded the Eastern U.S. The deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon monoxide poisoning and from heart attacks while shoveling snow:
MARYLAND - 2
-- A 49-year-old man suffered cardiac arrest while shoveling in Abingdon on Saturday.
-- Officials in Prince George's County said a man collapsed and died Saturday while shoveling snow in Fort Washington.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - 1
--An 82-year-old man went into cardiac arrest while shoveling snow in front of his home.
VIRGINIA - 9
-- A man was killed Saturday in a single-vehicle crash in Virginia Beach that police blamed on speed and icy road conditions.
-- Virginia Tech filmmaker Jerry Scheeler died Friday while shoveling snow outside his new house in Daleville.
-- A single-vehicle crash in Chesapeake claimed one life.
-- The medical examiner's office confirmed five hypothermia deaths -- in Hampton and Wise, Charles City, Gloucester and Henry counties.
-- A 55-year-old man collapsed and died after walking home in Leesburg on Saturday evening in the blizzard.
DELAWARE - 1
-- A U.S. Capitol Police officer, 44-year-old Officer Vernon Alston, died of a heart attack after shoveling snow at his Magnolia home.
KENTUCKY - 2
-- Kentucky transportation worker Christopher Adams died Saturday while plowing snow-covered highways.
-- Billy R. Stevens, 59, of Williamsburg, died in southeastern Kentucky when his car collided with a salt truck Thursday.
NEW JERSEY - 3
-- Twenty-three-year-old Sashalynn Rosa, of Passaic, and her 1-year-old son, Messiah Bonilla, died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting in a running car that had its tailpipe covered in snow. Rosa's 3-year-old daughter, Saniyah Bonilla, remains hospitalized in critical condition.
-- Police said Mary Wall, 64, died while shoveling snow Saturday but wasn't found until Monday afternoon when children returning home from school found her snow-covered body in Mahwah.
NEW YORK - 4
-- Al Mansoor, 66, was struck and killed by a snowplow clearing his driveway just after 2 p.m. Sunday.
-- Three people died while shoveling snow in New York City -- one person on Staten Island and two people in Queens. Police announced the deaths but released no further details.
NORTH CAROLINA - 6
-- Six people died in car accidents during the storm, authorities have said, including a 4-year-old boy who died Friday afternoon after the pickup truck carrying his family on Interstate 77 near Troutman spun out of control and crashed.
OHIO - 1
-- A teenager sledding behind an all-terrain vehicle was hit by a truck and killed Friday, the State Highway Patrol said.
PENNSYLVANIA - 8
-- Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say David Perrotto, 56, died of carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently after his car was buried in snow by a passing plow.
-- A Halifax man suffered cardiac arrest Sunday while shoveling, Dauphin County coroner Graham Hetrick told WHTM-TV.
-- Cesar Bourdon, 54, collapsed while shoveling in Allentown on Saturday night.
-- Geneva College soccer player Nate Ferraco was killed in a crash on an icy road near Evans City.
-- Richard Lapham, 70, died of cardiac arrest while using a snowblower at his Lancaster home.
-- Ronald Bernhard, 74, died of cardiac arrest while driving a tractor with a snowplow at his home in Elizabethtown.
-- Briahna Gerloff, 18, who was eight months pregnant, died after shoveling snow in Pottstown. A family friend said Gerloff previously suffered from a heart ailment.
-- Lloyd McCorkel, 66, was found in a snowbank near a dollar store in Mount Holly Springs late Sunday. A coroner confirmed that he died of hypothermia and heart disease.
SOUTH CAROLINA - 4
-- Ruby Bell, 86, and her husband, 87-year-old Robert Bell, died in Greenville of probable carbon monoxide poisoning because of a generator filled the house with carbon monoxide.
-- The South Carolina Highway Patrol says a 44-year-old man was killed after being struck by a vehicle that slid out of control after hitting a patch of ice.
-- Jimmy B. Thomas, 61, was driving a car that ran off a road near Jonesville early Saturday afternoon, hitting a ditch and then a tree.
TENNESSEE - 2
-- A car going too fast for the weather conditions slid off a slick roadway, killing the driver and injuring a passenger, the Knox County sheriff's department said.
-- A couple in a vehicle slid off an icy road and plummeted down a 300-foot embankment Wednesday night, killing the woman who was driving, said Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunceford.
VIRGINIA - 9
-- A man was killed Saturday in a single-vehicle crash in Virginia Beach that police blamed on speed and icy road conditions.
-- Virginia Tech filmmaker Jerry Scheeler died Friday while shoveling snow outside his new house in Daleville.
-- A single-vehicle crash in Chesapeake claimed one life.
-- The medical examiner's office confirmed five hypothermia deaths -- in Hampton and Wise, Charles City, Gloucester and Henry counties.
-- A 55-year-old man collapsed and died after walking home in Leesburg on Saturday evening in the blizzard.
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