The fiancé of North Carolina mass shooting victim, Mary Marshall, opened up about her death.
Robert Steele spoke to NBC’s “Sunday Today” about the day Marshall was killed by an alleged 15-year-old gunman on Thursday in her Raleigh neighborhood.
“She says, ‘I need you to come home right now. Immediately. Scruff, our dog, has slipped his collar, and I just heard gunshots,’” Steele shared.
Once he got home, detectives had already arrived and began asking questions.
“And he started asking about tattoos that Mary has, we knew. We knew she was gone,” he recalled tearfully alongside Marshall’s parents and sister.
Steele and Marshall planned on getting married in two weeks. Marshall was going to surprise Steele with a wedding band that has a special message engraved inside.
“The engraving is ‘You’re my favorite place,'” Steele explained with the ring in his hand. “I loved when she would wrap me up in her arms and every time we would cuddle that way, she would whisper in my ear before we went to sleep, ‘You’re my favorite place.'”
Marshall’s sister, Meaghan McCrickard, told NBC that all she wanted was for her father to walk her down the aisle, the mother-daughter dance, and “Rob.”
Thomas Marshall, Mary Marshall’s father, shared that he was really looking forward to walking her down the aisle.
“I couldn’t wait for it,” he said.
Two were injured and five were killed during the mass shooting, including a police officer and a relative of the suspect in a Raleigh neighborhood.
The suspect of the shooting has yet to be named but ABC News reports that he is in the hospital “with life-threatening injuries” after a stand-off with police.
A North Carolina district attorney said that she will be charging the suspect as an adult.
