On August 7, 2011, 64-year-old Gudrun Marie Scheiner Johnson, a woman of German ethnicity living in Akron, Ohio, was shot and killed during a mass shooting that also claimed the lives of her husband, Russell Johnson, 67; their granddaughter, Autumn Johnson, 16; Autumn’s friend, Amelia Shambaugh, 16; and Gudrun’s son, Bryan Johnson, 44. The attacker, identified as Michael Hance, had reportedly visited a firing range in Barberton days earlier. He first shot and killed Craig Dieter, 51, then went to the Johnson home and carried out the fatal shootings.

Rebecca Dieter, 49, was shot and survived. Copley Township police shot and killed Hance at the scene. Gudrun’s obituary described her as a beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, and the family was well known in the community.

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