Pifer was meeting with therapy clients when the first reports of an active shooter in San Bernardino came in. Johnson worked as a health inspector in San Bernardino, an expansive, mountainous county east of Los Angeles. But nearly six months ago, it was Pifer herself who was plunged deep into grief when her boyfriend was among 14 people killed in the San Bernardino attack. Johnson wasn't afraid of marrying again, but he didn't want another divorce, she said. Then, as she was driving home, she listened to the radio and heard that the shooting had happened at a meeting of workers for a division of the San Bernardino County Public Health Department.

Source: ABC News May 31, 2016 06:22 UTC