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Friday, June 23, 2006

Wife Of Slain 'NY Times' Reporter David Rosenbaum Dies

Editor&Publisher: Wife Of Slain 'NY Times' Reporter David Rosenbaum Dies
By Joe Strupp
Published: June 23, 2006

NEW YORK -- Just six months after her husband, former New York Times reporter David E. Rosenbaum, was attacked and beaten to death in a robbery that drew attention to Washington, D.C.'s troubled EMS procedures, Virginia Rosenbaum has died of cancer.

An obituary in today's Times reported that she passed away on Thursday in her D.C. home of colon cancer.

A corporate research analyst for the D.C.-based Institutional Shareholder Services, Ms. Rosenbaum, 63, was the mother of two children with Mr. Rosenbaum, as well as two grandchildren. Following her husband's shocking death in January, which prompted an internal investigation into Washington's emergency response system, Ms. Rosenbaum had kept a low profile, allowing her brother-in-law, Marcus Rosenbaum, and others to speak for the family.

The investigation, by the D.C. Inspector General's Office, ended last week with a report that found the city's police and fire and EMS departments, as well as Howard University Hospital, had made mistakes in their handling of the injured Rosenbaum. The report made little mention of Ms. Rosenbaum, noting that she had called police the night of the attack to inform them that he was missing....

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