In the early morning hours of a September day, Brindra Giri, a 41-year-old woman from Nepal, was at her new job at a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland, working to build a better life for her family. Having moved to the United States only five months prior, she had recently started this job to become a part of her new community and provide for her two children and husband.
Despite some family members' reservations, she was determined to contribute to her family's future.
Tragically, her dreams were cut short on September 20, 2018, when a temporary employee named Snochia Moseley, a 26-year-old female, opened fire on her colleagues. Moseley had been with the company for less than two weeks. On that particular morning, after a minor workplace disagreement, she left the facility and returned with a legally purchased handgun. She began shooting outside the building before moving inside, where Giri and another female colleague were fatally wounded.
The perpetrator, who had been diagnosed with a mental illness in 2016 and had shown increasing agitation in the weeks leading up to the shooting, fired a total of 13 rounds, killing Giri and two others, and injuring three more. Before law enforcement arrived at the scene, Snochia Moseley turned the gun on herself, ending her own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The devastating event left Giri's family, both in the United States and Nepal, heartbroken over the sudden and violent loss of a woman who had traveled so far in pursuit of a dream.
