Ann Van Dyke, a 59-year-old white woman from the small town of Louisville in Clay County, Illinois, died on May 2, 2018, in circumstances later recorded as a death caused by gun violence. She had been rooted in this rural county seat—a close-knit community where generations of families live within a short drive of one another—and it was there, on a Wednesday evening, that her life came to an abrupt end.
Ann was born on March 6, 1959, to Robert “Bob” L. Van Dyke and Marie Dell Van
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