WPTV’s Zitlali Solache spoke with loved ones over the phone who knew 65-year-old Rita Loncharich, who was killed in a stabbing at Barnes & Noble in Palm Beach Gardens last week. “Rita was a kind, gentle, and loving wife and mother whose life was taken far too soon and in such a senseless act of violence,” said a friend in a statement.

Woman killed in Barnes & Noble stabbing remembered as 'kind, gentle'