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.
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.
