Chapel Hill, NC Woman killed outside of her office

Shennel McKendall was murdered as she returned to work from a long Thanksgiving weekend. On November 29th, as she walked with co-workers to the entrance of her building at the UNC Hospital administrative offices, she was confronted by her husband, Randy McKendall. He used a handgun to shoot her and then he killed himself. The incident was even more tragic as the victim had tried to seek protection by obtaining a restraining order earlier in the month. In this short period of time, he violated that order twice and attempted suicide by drug overdose. Despite these clear warning signals of lethality, he was released on bail, obtained a weapon he denied owning and committed the atrocity.
This incident occured just a few hundred yards from the Friday Center where a landmark conference on domestic violence in the workplace occured a little more than a year ago.