The committee's statement also gave updates on the medical condition of the shooting victims.
32-year-old gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV, killed five girls and injured five others Oct. 2, committing suicide as police surrounded the one-room Amish schoolhouse in West Nickel Mines where he had barricaded himself. The school was razed days after the shooting.
The committee announced that a new school site has been chosen, and donations will fully cover the construction of the school, which will start “in the next months,” the committee said in its statement. The site's location was not revealed.
The committee has limited the use of Nickel Mines donations for “medical expenses; counseling services for students and their families, teachers, emergency response providers, and other community members affected by the event; transportation for victims and for family members attending to the victims; rehabilitation and reconstructive treatment; long-term disability care; modifications to homes or schools if needed to make facilities handicap accessible; construction of a new school building; and any other expenses resulting from the event,” according to the statement.
Read the full text of the statement released by the committee.
