Gina Angela Shoemaker, 46, was fatally shot on November 23, 2014, in Mt. Jackson, Virginia, while visiting her mother Dorothy Nesselrodt on Charlotte Lane in Shenandoah County. The wound came from a bullet that penetrated the walls of the house; the shot originated from the nearly eight-acre property next door where Richard and Anna Funkhouser’s adult grandson, Shawn Jason Nicely, had been given permission to practice shooting a rifle and was firing in the direction of Nesselrodt’s residence.

The administrator of Shoemaker’s estate filed a wrongful death suit against the Funkhousers, alleging they were negligent in allowing their grandson to shoot toward a known residence. A circuit court dismissed the claim, but on March 25, 2021 the Supreme Court of Virginia reversed that dismissal, ruling landowners can have a limited duty to prevent activities on their property that may harm people off their property and remanding the case for further proceedings.

If anyone knew Gina Shoemaker, the family, or observed target shooting in that neighborhood around November 23, 2014, please share what was seen or heard.