Mary Lynne Mabry, 57, was shot and killed at her Baroda, Michigan, home on Father’s Day, June 18, 2023. Known in her community as British Mary, she was sitting on her back patio with her husband when the couple’s adult son, 60-year-old David Lee Mabry of Stevensville, arrived and a dispute began. Reportedly the argument concerned cats the son had left at the residence. When told the cats were no longer there, he became enraged, drew a handgun, and shot his stepmother.

Mary Mabry’s husband struggled with his son and disarmed him before the son fled the scene in a vehicle. Law enforcement arrested David Mabry a short time later; he was charged with open murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and bond was set at $1 million.

On June 20, 2023, David Mabry was found unresponsive in his cell at the Berrien County Jail and was pronounced dead. Preliminary findings reported no signs of suspicious activity or an obvious self-inflicted fatal wound and noted pre-existing medical conditions; the Michigan State Police took over the investigation into his death.

Did anyone in the area know Mary Lynne Mabry or have information about the events that day?