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Lone survivor of deadly '91 Iowa shooting rampage dies of cancer

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Miya Rodolfo-Sioson, the only survivor of a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa in 1991, has died of breast cancer.

She died on Wednesday at a hospital in Oakland, Calif. She was 40.

A spokeswoman for the Alameda County Medical Center-Highland Hospital says Rodolfo-Sioson was being treated for stage four breast cancer, the most serious stage.

Rodolfo-Sioson was a 23-year-old student at Iowa when she was shot by disgruntled graduate student Gang Lu on Nov. 1, 1991. She was 1 of 6 people Lu shot before he shot and killed himself.

Rodolfo-Sioson moved to California, where she served on Berkeley's Commission on Disability for eight years. More recently she had a part-time job taking foreign exchange students on tours of the San Francisco Bay area.

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