Raymond E. Williams, 64, was fatally shot on April 6, 2009, during a shooting spree in Altoona, Pennsylvania carried out by Nicholas Adam Horner. Williams spent most of his life in Northern Cambria and worked in the insurance business with his wife, Christina. Family remembered him as tech-savvy, a car enthusiast who liked rebuilding cars, a coffee lover, and a devoted husband, father of two and grandfather of three.

His daughter Melanie Kollar and son Matthew Williams were notified of his death by phone. The case went to trial, and in 2012 Horner was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Christina Williams confronted the man who killed her husband during the proceedings.