The cause of death in all cases is related to gunshot wounds, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.
Jonathan T. Blunk, 26
Blunk served for five years in the U.S. Navy. He had been planning to fly Saturday to Reno, Nevada, to see his wife, Chantel, his 4-year-old daughter and his 2-year-old son.
“We were going to have a family day,” Chantel Blunk said.
Instead, she put away the dress her daughter had picked out to wear to the airport. “I tried to tell her we wouldn’t see Daddy anymore, but that he would still love us and look over us.”
The couple married in 2007 and separated in 2010, she said. They remained on good terms after Jonathan moved to Colorado. Blunk died shielding his girlfriend from the gunfire inside the theater.
Chantel Blunk said she wants her husband to have a military funeral. She said she will remember Jonathan’s humor, spontaneity and attention to family. “We love him and he is going to be remembered as a hero,” she said.
Alexander J. Boik, 18
A Facebook page was created in memory of Boik, a Gateway High School student who was at the theater with his girlfriend and a friend.
“AJ was an awesome kid and a truly Inspirational teammate,” one Facebook entry said. “You cant find someone with a brighter smile and more positive outlook on life. There to help you up when your down and One to carry on life with such an intelligence.”
Boik was an independent distributor for Organo Gold, a coffee company, and lived in Aurora, according to what appears to be his personal Facebook page.
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Alexander Teves recently graduated from the University of Denver with a master’s degree in counseling psychology.
“The university extends its deepest condolences to his family and friends, including the many current students and faculty who knew and worked with Alex,” the school said in a statement.
Teves died protecting his girlfriend, Amanda Lindgren. “I wouldn’t be here without him,” Lindgren told CNN Monday.
His aunt, Barbara Slivinske, said Alex was living in Colorado and had just completed graduate school there in June. His parents were in Colorado, retrieving his body, according to Slivinske, who added, “He was a wonderful nephew.”
Rebecca Ann Wingo, 32
Rebecca Wingo was originally from Quinlan, Texas, and lived in Aurora, Colorado. Her father, Steve Hernandez, announced his daughter’s death on Facebook, saying, “I lost my daughter yesterday to a mad man, my grief right now is inconsolable.”
“I hear she died instantly, without pain, however the pain is unbearable. Lord why, why, why????” Hernandez wrote. “I sit here and resist this entry however I feel I must, in disgust, in dismay, in prayer, I love you my daughter Rebecca, we all will miss you.”
Wingo joined the Air Force after high school, became fluent in Mandarin and served as a translator, according to CNN Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate WFAA.
She had “the sweetest smile you’ve ever seen,” said friend Hal Wallace. “She got prettier as she grew older.”
Wingo moved to Colorado with her two young girls, and wrote about how the younger one was excited about starting kindergarten.
Said Wallace: “In the blink of an eye something happens and completely changes everyone’s life — forever.”
