Lynn Murray, 62, retired photo editor, killed in mass shooting
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PHOTOS: Boulder community mourns one day after mass shooting
When Olivia Mackenzie received the call that her mom — 62-year-old Lynn Murray — was inside a grocery store with an active shooter, she raced down from Nederland, driving with a brace on her broken leg amid blowing snow.
“I was just praying that I didn’t crash, break my leg even more and that my mom was alive,” the 24-year-old said.
Mackenzie hoped her mom was a hostage who would make it out of the store where she was working as an Instacart shopper. Murray was a retired photo director who previously lived in New York and worked for big-name magazines like Glamour, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan.
Tears filling her eyes, Mackenzie said, “My mom was the least deserving person to die this way.”
Mackenzie described her mom as her favorite person.
“She was the most beautiful person I ever met,” Mackenzie said. “She is the warmest, kindest, most positive person.”
Mackenzie said her mom was an artist who could pick up a pen and casually doodle a beautiful drawing. Mackenzie had a brain seizure when she was 8 years old on Mother’s Day, and her mother found her nearly dead.
“She slept with me every night,” Mackenzie said. “We became so close. Her dedication to being a mom was everything.”
Murray grew up in Mentor, Ohio, and attended Ohio University. Mackenzie said her mother was “an amazing cook” who did gig work after retiring. Along with her Instacarts jobs, she also worked for Uber and Lyft.
Murray is also survived by a son, Pierce, 22, and a husband, John Mackenzie.
“She really was the biggest light in everybody’s life,” Mackenzie said. “She would do anything for anybody. You can’t say anything bad about her.”
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