Rita Joanne Lillard

How they died

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Police were called to an apartment complex around 9 a.m. When officers arrived they saw a woman, Rita Joanne Lillard, 64, getting out of her car and walking toward the apartment where the 911 call came from. As the woman knocked on the door, police said Lewis Trinidad Nunez, 46, answered and shot the woman at point-blank range, killing her. The officers who witnessed the shooting got out of their patrol car and ordered Nunez to drop his gun. He shot at the officers. One of the officers pulled out their weapon and shot and wounded him. Nunez then retreated into to the apartment where he barricaded himself. He eventually came out of the apartment on his own. His girlfriend, Virginia Lillian Lillard, 39, was also found dead in the apartment.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Rita Joanne Lillard, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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