At least 44 people die as result of snowstorm that hit East

At least 44 people have died as a result of the mammoth snowstorm that pounded the Eastern U.S. The deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon monoxide poisoning and from heart attacks while shoveling snow:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 1

-An 82-year-old man went into cardiac arrest while shoveling snow in front of his home.

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DELAWARE – 1

– A U.S. Capitol Police officer, 44-year-old Officer Vernon Alston, died of a heart attack after shoveling snow at his Magnolia home.

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KENTUCKY – 2

– Kentucky transportation worker Christopher Adams died Saturday while plowing snow-covered highways.

– Billy R. Stevens, 59, of Williamsburg, died in southeastern Kentucky when his car collided with a salt truck Thursday.

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MARYLAND – 2

– A 49-year-old man suffered cardiac arrest while shoveling in Abingdon on Saturday.

– Officials in Prince George’s County said a man collapsed and died Saturday while shoveling snow in Fort Washington.

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NEW JERSEY – 3

– Twenty-three-year-old Sashalynn Rosa, of Passaic, and her 1-year-old son, Messiah Bonilla, died of carbon monoxide poisoning while sitting in a running car that had its tailpipe covered in snow. Rosa’s 3-year-old daughter, Saniyah Bonilla, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

– Police said Mary Wall, 64, died while shoveling snow Saturday but wasn’t found until Monday afternoon when children returning home from school found her snow-covered body in Mahwah.

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NEW YORK – 5

– Al Mansoor, 66, was struck and killed by a snowplow clearing his driveway just after 2 p.m. Sunday.

– Three people died while shoveling snow in New York City – one person on Staten Island and two people in Queens. Police announced the deaths but released no further details.

– Angel Ginel was found dead Monday afternoon inside his running, plowed-in car in Brooklyn. His relatives tell the Daily News that they suspect he got inside the car to warm up Sunday and turned it on, and the car got buried.

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NORTH CAROLINA – 6

– Six people died in car accidents during the storm, authorities have said, including a 4-year-old boy who died Friday afternoon after the pickup truck carrying his family on Interstate 77 near Troutman spun out of control and crashed.

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OHIO – 1

– A teenager sledding behind an all-terrain vehicle was hit by a truck and killed Friday, the State Highway Patrol said.

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PENNSYLVANIA – 8

– Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say David Perrotto, 56, died of carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently after his car was buried in snow by a passing plow.

– A Halifax man suffered cardiac arrest Sunday while shoveling, Dauphin County coroner Graham Hetrick told WHTM-TV.

– Cesar Bourdon, 54, collapsed while shoveling in Allentown on Saturday night.

– Geneva College soccer player Nate Ferraco was killed in a crash on an icy road near Evans City.

– Richard Lapham, 70, died of cardiac arrest while using a snowblower at his Lancaster home.

– Ronald Bernhard, 74, died of cardiac arrest while driving a tractor with a snowplow at his home in Elizabethtown.

– Briahna Gerloff, 18, who was eight months pregnant, died after shoveling snow in Pottstown. A family friend said Gerloff previously suffered from a heart ailment.

– Lloyd McCorkel, 66, was found in a snowbank near a dollar store in Mount Holly Springs late Sunday. A coroner confirmed that he died of hypothermia and heart disease.

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SOUTH CAROLINA – 4

– Ruby Bell, 86, and her husband, 87-year-old Robert Bell, died in Greenville of probable carbon monoxide poisoning because of a generator filled the house with carbon monoxide.

– The South Carolina Highway Patrol says a 44-year-old man was killed after being struck by a vehicle that slid out of control after hitting a patch of ice.

– Jimmy B. Thomas, 61, was driving a car that ran off a road near Jonesville early Saturday afternoon, hitting a ditch and then a tree.

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TENNESSEE – 2

– A car going too fast for the weather conditions slid off a slick roadway, killing the driver and injuring a passenger, the Knox County sheriff’s department said.

– A couple in a vehicle slid off an icy road and plummeted down a 300-foot embankment Wednesday night, killing the woman who was driving, said Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunceford.

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VIRGINIA – 9

– A man was killed Saturday in a single-vehicle crash in Virginia Beach that police blamed on speed and icy road conditions.

– Virginia Tech filmmaker Jerry Scheeler died Friday while shoveling snow outside his new house in Daleville.

– A single-vehicle crash in Chesapeake claimed one life.

– The medical examiner’s office confirmed five hypothermia deaths – in Hampton and Wise, Charles City, Gloucester and Henry counties.

– A 55-year-old man collapsed and died after walking home in Leesburg on Saturday evening in the blizzard.