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   Editor's note: The Elkhart County Sheriff's Office released a   
   statement Thursday morning saying it had been wrong about the   
   direction in which each vehicle was traveling and about which   
   vehicle crossed the center line. The vehicle Walorski rode in   
   was traveling north, not south, and crossed the center line,   
   police now say.   
      
   ELKHART — U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-2nd District) was killed   
   in a car crash in Elkhart County on Wednesday, according to the   
   Elkhart County Sheriff's Department.   
      
   Three other people were killed in the crash, which took place   
   while Walorski and two others were in a sport-utility vehicle   
   heading north on Indiana 19 south of Wakarusa around 12:30 p.m.,   
   according to police. The vehicle Walorski rode in was driven by   
   Zachery Potts and crossed the center line for "reasons unknown   
   at this time," colliding with another sport-utility vehicle   
   going south.   
      
   Potts, 27, and Emma Thomson, 28, were with Walorski, and both   
   were killed in the crash.   
      
   Walorski, 58, has served Indiana's 2nd district in the U.S.   
   House of Representatives since 2013.   
      
   Potts was the chairman of the St. Joseph County Republican   
   Party. Thomson was Walorski's communications director. The group   
   was returning from a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Claypool,   
   Indiana, at a soybean processing facility.   
      
   Congresswoman remembered:Indiana, national leaders react to U.S.   
   Rep. Walorski's death   
      
   Elkhart County police are still investigating the crash. The   
   driver of the southbound car was identified Wednesday afternoon   
   as Edith Schmucker, 56, of Nappanee, and she was pronounced dead   
   at the scene.   
      
   “Larger than life and possessing an infectious personality that   
   captured the attention of every room, Congresswoman Walorski was   
   a fierce advocate for her district," said Susan Baxmeyer, the   
   vice chair of the St. Joseph County Republican Party, in a   
   statement. "Never once was she without a smile, or a kind word,   
   or a rousing and inspiring message. She poured her heart and   
   soul into each day’s work.   
      
   "And while this district is losing an incredible representative,   
   the bigger loss is that of a loyal friend."   
      
   “Jackie’s work on behalf of our community, the state of Indiana   
   and to the United States of America stands as a testament to the   
   power of a passionate and powerful voice, and her extraordinary   
   leadership can and has made a difference, first in our   
   community, then in Indiana, and now across the United States,"   
   Mishawaka Mayor Dave Wood said.   
      
   "A strong woman of deep and enduring faith, Jackie’s legacy   
   stands as a model to all of us to an unwavering service to   
   others and our Country above self.  She is and will forever be a   
   patriot," he added. "Jackie will be missed."   
      
   Baxmeyer said that Potts became involved in the local Republican   
   party as a high school student. Along with serving as the county   
   party chair, he was also the district director for Walorski and   
   the district chair on the Indiana Republican Party State   
   Committee.   
      
   Mike Bellovich, a Republican who has served on the Mishawaka   
   Common Council since 2012, said Potts, just 27, had done well to   
   move the county Republican party forward.   
      
   "He was not someone who ever accepted the odds," Baxmeyer said   
   of Potts in her statement. "Tell him it could not be done, and   
   he worked even harder. There was always a new challenge to   
   tackle, another project to take on and a campaign to win."   
      
   Walorski's local roots   
   Walorski, 58, was born and raised in the Gilmer Park   
   neighborhood just outside South Bend’s southern city limits. Her   
   father Raymond was a South Bend firefighter who owned an   
   appliance repair shop and her mother Martha worked as a meat   
   cutter at a grocery store.   
      
   Jackie Walorski   
   After attending Liberty Baptist College and graduating from   
   Taylor University with a bachelor’s degree in communications and   
   public administration, she spent the first four years of her   
   career as a reporter for WSBT-TV.   
      
      
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