RALEIGH, N.C. — Just over 5 miles into her Thursday evening run along the familiar Neuse River Greenway, Raleigh mother of three Susan Karnatz was fatally shot by a, wounded two and frightened hundreds more in surrounding neighborhoods.
, died while going about their everyday routines, friends and authorities have said. Karnatz, 49, had just left home for a run down one of her favorite paths, her husband said. “We had plans together for big adventures,” Tom Karnatz wrote in a Facebook post. “And plans together for the mundane days in between. ... Now those plans are laid to waste.”
The Karnatzes met in 2004 at a gathering of the North Carolina Roadrunners Club and stayed involved with the organization for almost 20 years, said Jack Threadgill, the club president. Karissa McDonough had been close friends with Karnatz for about six years, and the two ran the Boston Marathon together in 2019. After the shooting, the mother from Waterbury Center, Vermont, carefully explained the tragedy to her 14-year-old daughter Eireann before asking if she wanted to come along on a run to honor her late friend.
As a fellow mother of three, McDonough, 47, said she always looked to Karnatz as a role model. Even when they were far apart, Karnatz filled her days with laughter and constant encouragement after McDonough's husband died of an illness in January. Now, McDonough said she is devastated that Tom Karnatz and his sons will have to experience a similar pain.
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