American-Israeli Richard Lakin dies two weeks after terrorist attack on Jerusalem bus

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American-Israeli Richard Lakin, 76, who was critically wounded in a brutal bus attack in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood two weeks ago, died on Tuesday morning, a hospital official announced. Lakin, a former principal at Hopewell Elementary School in Glastonbury, Connecticut, underwent numerous emergency surgeries at Hadassah University Medical Center in Ein Kerem after being shot in the head and stabbed multiple times.

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