Mrs. Dunn's stubbornness kicked in after her knees wore out. She had surgery to try and repair them, but she refused to do the exercises her doctors and therapists recommended. Eventually, she got so she couldn't get around by herself. So she decided on her own to go live in a nursing home at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center. She had been living at Pinelake for about a year and though it was never as good as home, where she could plant a garden and can tomatoes every summer, she was comfortable there. Mrs. Dunn had been doing especially well and her family visited her often. Her son and his wife had been to visit recently and the three of them watched a Clint Eastwood movie on the big-screen TV. She had also begun to drop in on recreational activities and especially liked to go hear singers who came to the nursing home to entertain residents. Before she retired, Lillian had worked in a textile mill in Ramseur. She raised five children, three of whom survive. Her hobbies included quilting, canning fruits and vegetables, and cooking meals for her family. She had lived in the Highfalls community, between Carthage and Ramseur, since 1953, before moving to Pinelake. But she still longed to go back home where she had lived in the same white house, with more than a dozen flower beds of red and yellow. Mrs. Dunn was killed at age 89 during a shooting rampage at the Pinelake facility.

Mrs. Dunn's stubbornness kicked in after her knees wore out. She had surgery to try and repair them, but she refused to do the exercises her doctors and therapists recommended. Eventually, she got so she couldn't get around by herself. So she decided on her own to go live in a nursing home at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center. She had been living at Pinelake for about a year and though it was never as good as home, where she could plant a garden and can tomatoes every summer, she was comfortable there. Mrs. Dunn had been doing especially well and her family visited her often. Her son and his wife had been to visit recently and the three of them watched a Clint Eastwood movie on the big-screen TV. She had also begun to drop in on recreational activities and especially liked to go hear singers who came to the nursing home to entertain residents. Before she retired, Lillian had worked in a textile mill in Ramseur. She raised five children, three of whom survive. Her hobbies included quilting, canning fruits and vegetables, and cooking meals for her family. She had lived in the Highfalls community, between Carthage and Ramseur, since 1953, before moving to Pinelake. But she still longed to go back home where she had lived in the same white house, with more than a dozen flower beds of red and yellow. Mrs. Dunn was killed at age 89 during a shooting rampage at the Pinelake facility.