Dorothy Johnston, 38, was one of four people killed in a mass shooting inside Lee’s Cathay Terrace, a Chinese restaurant on Post Road in Warwick, Rhode Island, on June 17, 1978. The attack took place while employees and patrons were present and left the community reeling; memorial records list her name, age, the date, and the city of the slayings.

Contemporary accounts and victim registries record Johnston among the victims of that single incident, alongside John O’Dell and Robert Lee. Her burial is recorded at Saint Ann Cemetery in Cranston, a reminder of the personal losses behind the public tragedy.