Fort Collins Shooting: Coroner Identifies 3 Victims Killed Near CSU

FORT COLLINS, CO -- The Larimer Co. Coroner's office released the names of the three persons killed in Fort Collins's deadliest shooting in ten years. Colorado State University senior Savannah McNealy, 22 of Highlands Ranch, died from multiple gunshot wounds in what was classified as a homicide. Tristian Kemp, 26, of Destin, Florida, was also killed by gunshot wounds in a homicide. The shooter, Michael Zamora, 30, of Fort Collins died of gunshot wounds in a suicide, the CSU Collegian newspaper reported.

McNealy was an art major and a member of the student media staff, according to the Collegian. She interned on the CSU Creative Services Team.

University President Tony Frank issued a statement Thursday urging students to remember Savannah.

"I didn’t have the pleasure of knowing Savannah personally, but I have talked this afternoon with others who did…and she sounds like an exceptional, bright, energetic, confident, and creative young woman. She was clearly loved as a friend and daughter.," Frank wrote in a statement. "The circumstances around her death do not, indeed, cannot define Savannah’s life. Her life’s definition is etched on all those who knew and cared for her via the impact she had on them. She left her stamp on CSU as well, and we will treasure her memory...Each of you is a unique light, with the badly needed potential to brighten our world’s dark places – both large and small. Shine some of that light on each other this evening in Savannah’s memory."

The university is offering grief counseling for students at the Lori Center today and telephone counsellors are available at (970) 491-6053 (days) and (970) 491-7111 (after hours).

The campus will host a vigil for McNealy on Friday at 4 p.m. at the Ram Walk on Meridian Drive between Hughes Way and Pitkin Street.

"Savannah was instrumental in coming up with the idea and design for the Ram Walk, the orange stripe that has already become such an important CSU tradition," Frank wrote.

Image via Patch: Crime investigation scene at 720 City Park Ave. in Fort Collins.