76-Year-Old Targeted Connected to Business

A 76-year-old woman killed in a shootout was targeted because of large sums of money she carried in connection to a business she worked at, the Anderson County sheriff says.

Anderson County deputies say they executed a search warrant at Dorothy Hendrix's workplace.  They confiscated 15 illegal gambling machines from 3454 Cinema Center in Anderson Tuesday afternoon.

Family members tell deputies that Hendrix, who was killed in an exchange of gunfire at her home on Rayben Lane, was involved in the day-to-day operations at the business and often returned home in the early morning house with large sums of money.  

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