Las Vegas Sun

April 16, 2024

Colorado shooting victim from Reno coming home

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This undated photo provided by the family shows Jonathan T. Blunk, 26, of Aurora, Colo. with his two children. Blunk was one of the victims in the Friday, July 20, 2012 Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting.

RENO — The body of a former Reno resident who died in the mass shooting in Colorado is being flown home to be buried.

KOLO-TV reports that the family of 26-year-old Navy veteran Jonathan Blunk says his body is arriving Friday at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport.

A funeral service is scheduled Aug. 3 at the Mountain View Mortuary.

Blunk was among 12 people killed in a movie theater in Aurora at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises." Fifty-eight other moviegoers were wounded.

Blunk graduated from Reno's Hug High School in 2004.

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