Wendy Jean Johnson, 58, was shot and killed on August 22, 2014, in the parking lot of Hyde Park Apartments in Cary, North Carolina. Wendy, a night nurse from Sanford who provided in-home care and had gone on mission trips to care for children overseas, was getting out of her car when Daniel Scott Remington approached and attempted to rob her. When she resisted and refused to give up her purse, Remington shot her. Wendy was taken to Duke University Hospital in Durham, where she was pronounced dead.

Daniel Scott Remington, 38, of Gooseneck Drive, was arrested and charged in the case; his girlfriend, Jessica Renee Parrisher, 28, was charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. Remington later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life without parole. Wendy’s family remembered her as a Christian, a missionary, and a devoted mother and grandmother who had moved to North Carolina to help raise her granddaughter while her husband was deployed in Afghanistan.