PITTSBURGH — The sole survivor of a racially motivated shooting spree more than six years ago has died.

Sandip Patel, who had been paralyzed from the neck down as a result of the attack, died Saturday of complications from pneumonia at UPMC Passavant hospital. He was 32.

Patel, of Ross, was the only survivor of a shooting rampage by Richard Baumhammers, an unemployed attorney, on April 28, 2000, that left five other people dead.

Baumhammers, then 37, was living with his parents when he left their home in Mount Lebanon and shot his Jewish neighbor, two Indian men — including Patel — two men of Asian descent and a black man.

He was convicted and sentenced to death for targeting his victims because of their religious or ethnic background, and remains on death row.

Baumhammers killed his Jewish next-door neighbor, Anita Gordon, 63, and then drove through the Pittsburgh area, targeting minorities in two counties.

Also killed were Anil Thakur, 31, an Indian man; two Asian men, Ji-Ye Sun, 34, of Churchill, and Thao Pham, 27, of Castle Shannon, at a Chinese restaurant; and Garry Lee, 22, a black man from Aliquippa, at a Beaver County karate school.

Patel was shot twice at his family's store, India Grocers, in Scott, where Thakur was also shot.

A native of India, Patel arrived in Pittsburgh 11 years ago to join family members and seek work as an accountant. He lived at a personal care facility after becoming a quadriplegic.