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Megan Gildow Anthony

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Megan Gildow Anthony joined the Springfield News-Sun as the education reporter in June 2008. She is a graduate of Ohio University.

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Matt McQuinn’s stepfather, David Jackson, speaks in his Springfield home on Saturday, July 21. Matt McQuinn was one of 12 people killed by lone gunman James Eagen Holmes at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday. McQuinn died shielding his girlfriend Samantha Yowler from the gunfire. Staff photo by Barbara J. Perenic

Local victim in theater shooting died a hero, loved ones say

Though shocked and saddened by his death, friends and family of Matt McQuinn were not surprised to learn that he died protecting his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater early Friday morning. “I know he’s a hero,” McQuinn’s stepfather, David Jackson, said at his ...

Samantha Yowler and Matt McQuinn

Local man shot, killed in theater shooting

In the chaos of one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history, one local woman’s boyfriend was killed at a Colorado movie theater. The boyfriend shielded her. The woman suffered a bullet wound to the leg while her brother escaped physically unharmed. Siblings Samantha and Nick Yowler — both ...

 

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