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"Our community is shattered, that is the word that keeps coming to my mind," said Dr Karen Hopkins, executive director of the Maine Educational Centre of the Deaf. The four deaf men who were killed, Joshua Seal, 36; Billy Brackett, 48; Steve Vozella, 45; and Bryan MacFarlane, 41, "were connected in many different ways to our community", she said.