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Come get me if I’m not back in 5 minutes, woman told co-workers before shooting

Collegedale police investigate the scene of a double shooting that left one person dead in a parking lot in front of the Game Stop store near Walmart on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Collegedale, Tenn. The red pickup truck in the foreground was involved in the incident.
Collegedale police investigate the scene of a double shooting that left one person dead in a parking lot in front of the Game Stop store near Walmart on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Collegedale, Tenn. The red pickup truck in the foreground was involved in the incident. Collegedale police investigate the scene of a double shooting that left one person dead in a parking lot in front of the Game Stop store near Walmart on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Collegedale, Tenn. The red pickup truck in the foreground was involved in the incident.

Before she stepped out into the parking lot of Ooltewah Crossing shopping center to talk to her estranged husband on Sunday afternoon, 24-year-old Holly Anderson told her co-workers to give her five minutes.

photo Jeffery Held, seen here in this 2009 booking photo, shot his ex-wife twice with a shotgun and then turned the gun on himself at a Collegedale shopping center Sunday afternoon.
photo Collegedale detectives Brandon Allen, left, and Kat Cooper investigate the scene of a double shooting that left one person dead in a parking lot of the Ooltewah Crossing shopping center on Sunday in Collegedale. The red pickup truck was the site of the incident.

If she wasn’t back by then, she told them, come get her. Give her a reason to come back into the store.

But Anderson never made it back.

Her husband, 38-year-old Jeffery Held, shot her twice in the legs with a 12-gauge shotgun around 2:20 p.m. and then shot himself in the head. He died in the parking lot. Anderson, 24, was taken to Erlanger hospital, where police said she was in stable condition on Monday.

The two were in the middle of a divorce, according to police.