On June 20, 1994, 39-year-old Anita Louise Knight Lindner was shot and killed during the violent rampage at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington. A mother of three and a Camp Fire leader, she had driven from her home in Cheney to the base to refill a prescription and was in the hospital parking lot trying to flee when the shooter encountered her.

The attacker, 20-year-old Dean Mellberg, had returned to the base armed with a MAK-90 assault rifle and had already killed two mental health clinicians inside the hospital annex and an 8-year-old girl in the cafeteria while injuring others. Witnesses said Mellberg struck Anita with five bullets, then stood over her and fired three more rounds as she lay wounded behind a vehicle. The rampage ended in under ten minutes when Senior Airman Andrew P. Brown, a 25-year-old Air Force Security Police officer, fatally shot Mellberg; the Spokane County District Attorney later found the officer’s use of force lawful and necessary.

Anita was the only victim reported to have been hit more than once. Does anyone who knew Anita or was at Fairchild that day have information or recollections to share about her or the events in the parking lot?