On a Monday in June 1994, 62-year-old Anita Linder drove to the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital in Spokane, Washington, to refill a prescription and was shot and killed in the hospital parking lot during a mass shooting. The gunman, identified as a former airman named Dean Mellberg, used an assault rifle in a rampage that left four people dead and 23 wounded before the shooter was killed at the scene. Anita was a mother of three, a Camp Fire leader, and had been married for many years to her husband Rande; the couple had met in college and had also taken in a nephew.

Her husband spent six hours searching for her before learning of her death from a sheriff’s deputy. No arrest was made because the perpetrator died at the scene.

If anyone knew Anita or has information about that day at the base hospital, please share what you remember.