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Wendi Anne Winters, 65, was one of five employees killed in a targeted mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28, 2018. A gunman forced his way through the newsroom’s glass doors and opened fire on staff. Winters reportedly charged the shooter with a trash can and a recycling bin, an action that created a distraction allowing some colleagues to escape or hide before she was fatally shot.

The attacker had a documented, long-running grievance against the newspaper that dated back to a 2011 article about his guilty plea to criminal harassment and a later dismissed defamation suit. He had sent threatening communications in the years before the assault and barricaded the office’s rear exit on the day of the attack. Police found him hiding under a desk and took him into custody.

Does anyone have memories of Wendi’s work at the paper, or information that could shed light on her final moments?