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The Phone Call That Changes Everything The phone rings at an hour no one wants to be awake. Someone from the Taylor County Sheriff’s office, or the Abilene Police Department, or perhaps a chaplain at Hendrick Medical Center, tells you that someone you love is gone. The words sound like they are coming through water. A hotel. A shooting. They are working to identify the person. They ask you to come to the hospital, or to the police station, or to stay where you are and wait. If the person on the other end of that call is telling you about what happened at the Days Inn on Ridgemont Drive in south Abilene, and if that person is your child, your sibling, your parent, or your partner, then the next hours and days will determine whether you ever get answers, accountability, or the resources to keep living after this loss. What you do now, and who you call, matters more than almost anything else in the weeks ahead. We have spent decades representing families across Texas after exactly this kind of loss. A loved one killed in a hotel. A shooting. A death the family says was preventable, and the…