The day after the most romantic holiday of the year, Valentine’s Day, Terra Pinkard tragically lost the love of her life.
“Friday afternoon, the day after Valentine’s Day, was a literal nightmare,” Terra wrote on Facebook Sunday.
She received a text from her husband, Josh Pinkard, at 1:24 p.m. that simply read, “I love you, I’ve been shot at work.”
At first, the horrified wife couldn’t process that those words translated into reality.
“It took me several times reading it for it to hit me that it was for real,” she recalls.
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According to police, 45-year-old Gary Martin opened fire in a plant at Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, Illinois after he got fired. Martin reportedly brought a gun to his termination meeting that day and began shooting as soon as he received the news.
The gunman killed five colleagues and injured six in his shooting rampage at the business where he had been employed for 15 years.