An Iraq war veteran and a married mother of two were identified as the two civilians killed Friday when a 57-year-old man opened fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
Army veteran Ke’Arre M. Stewart was an entrepreneur, a DJ and a devoted father, his aunt Tronda Stewart said in an interview. “He was always trying to make things better for him and his family,” she said.
Stewart’s wife told KKTV that he “leaves behind his children, whose lives will never be the same.” She also said that all his family wants is “justice,” the station reported.
Jennifer Markovsky, a married mother of two, also died in the attack, according to news reports from Colorado and her native Hawaii. Family members told Hawaii News Now that the 1997 graduate of Waianae High School had gone to the Planned Parenthood clinic to support a friend.
“The family is grieving. We’re all shocked,” one of Markovsky’s relatives told
Hawaii News Now.
The outlet reported that Markovsky’s father, John Ah King, mourned his daughter’s loss in a Facebook post. “Life was too short my beloved daughter,” he wrote. “I was waiting to see you soon.”
In addition to Stewart and Markovsky, University of Colorado police officer Garrett Swasey was killed in Friday’s attack, which also wounded nine people.
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