Cheryl Stumbo, a survivor of the 2006 shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and gun violence prevention advocate, has died. She was 63.
Stumbo’s sister, Lauren Stumbo Burkum, confirmed to KUOW she passed on Feb. 14. The cause of death was chondroblastic osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer. She was living in Corvallis, Ore. at the time of her death.
An accidental activist
Stumbo was one of six women shot on the afternoon of July 28, 2006, after a gunman entered the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s building. One woman, Pamela Waechter, was killed.
In an interview with KUOW in 2015, Stumbo recounted the “normal” Friday afternoon in the office, right before the shooting…