On July 7, 2011, 52-year-old Rebecca Heeren was fatally shot at her home on Brynell Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of a targeted shooting spree carried out by Rodrick Shonte Dantzler. The attack at the Heeren residence also killed her 51-year-old husband Thomas, their 29-year-old daughter Jennifer, and 12-year-old granddaughter Kamrie Heeren-Dantzler. Jennifer was identified as Dantzler’s estranged wife.

Dantzler used a 9mm Glock pistol and struck two separate homes that day, also killing a former girlfriend, that woman’s sister, and her 10-year-old daughter at a Plainfield Avenue address. A high-speed chase followed; Dantzler fired at officers, injured two other people, and later took hostages during a multi-hour standoff before he died by suicide. Rebecca was remembered by her husband’s employer as the one who kept her family going.

If anyone knew Rebecca or has information about her life and the impact on the family, please share memories or details that might help remember her.