Data from the Medical Examiners Commission also shows that most people who died in the Category 4 hurricane were 70 or older.
, three out of four people who died during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were 60 or older even though they represented just 16% of the total population. During Hurricane Florence in 2018, two of three people who died were 60 or older.
Officials said two of those three suicides were of people who appeared to be despondent after seeing the destruction wrought by the storm. In the homicide case, investigators said a relief worker was shot and killed after an altercation with another person. "People should not expect themselves to just bounce back, you know, just because the hurricane has passed," Lieberman said.
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