Anita Nicki Gordon, 63, was fatally shot at about 1:30 p.m. EDT on April 28, 2000, at her home in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A Carnegie Mellon graduate and interior designer, she was active in Beth El Congregation and survived by her husband, Dr. Sanford A. Gordon, three daughters — Annette, Linda, and Nancy — and a sister, Seima Horvitz. After shooting Gordon, the attacker set her house on fire and then continued a racially motivated rampage across suburban Pittsburgh.

The assailant, identified as 35-year-old former attorney Richard S. Baumhammers, fired into the windows of Beth El Congregation, spray-painted two red swastikas and the word Jew on the building, and went on to shoot multiple other victims of minority backgrounds at several locations before being arrested in Ambridge around 3:00–3:15 p.m. The case later proceeded to trial; the jury rejected an insanity defense, found Baumhammers guilty on all nineteen charges, and he was sentenced to death by lethal injection.

Lebanon community or of Nicki Gordon’s work with Beth El Congregation that could add context to her life and the impact of this attack?