A bride-to-be died while trying to save her dog during the past week Shooting Spree in North CarolinaThe woman’s grieving fiancé revealed in an emotional TV interview on Sunday.
Crying Robert Steele told NBC “sunday todayThat he had spoken with his fiancé, Mary Marshall, shortly before he was killed along with four others in Raleigh.
“She says, ‘I want you to come home now. Immediately. Scruff, our dog has slipped his collar, and I just heard gunshots,'” he recalled.
After Marshall fled, Steele arrived and found spies in his neighborhood.
“And they started asking about the tattoos that Mary has,” he said before crying.
“We know. We knew she was gone.”
Steele said that he is now wearing the wedding ring that Marshall had planned to give him when they recited their wedding vows in two weeks.
“The engraving is ‘You’re my favorite place,'” he said in a pained voice.
“I loved when she would wrap me in her arms and every time we hugged like that, she would whisper in my ear before going to sleep, ‘You’re my favorite place.’ ,
Grieved father Thomas Marshall struggled to control his emotions as he described his heartbreak at not walking his daughter down the aisle.
“I was really looking forward to it. I couldn’t wait for it,” he said.
Mary’s sister Megan McCrickard wept as she imagined the ceremony.
“They’re walking down the aisle. Mother-daughter dance. And Rob,” she said, unable to finish her thoughts.
A 15-year-old boy – identified by a local TV news station as Austin Thomson, the brother of the victim, 16-year-old James Thompson – is suspected of killing Marshall and others during a Thursday evening stampede, in which a Two including the policeman were also injured.
The bloodshed began in a residential area to the northeast of the city’s downtown, after which the shooter fled to a nearby pedestrian path and the massacre continued.
The teen was tracked and caught hours later in a house and admitted to a hospital in critical condition, though officials have not said so.
Wake County District Attorney Lauryn Freeman said prosecutors plan to charge the suspect as an adult.
post with wires