Cindy Yuille was an outdoor enthusiast who loved hiking and cross-country skiing and rarely visited shopping malls, said her family in an interview this morning.

She was Christmas shopping at the Clackamas Town Center Tuesday when she was shot and killed by a masked gunman, who later took his own life and has been identified as Jacob Tyler Roberts.

Yuille, 54, was a hospice nurse for Kaiser Permanente, where she met her second husband, Robert Yuille. She cared for dying people in their homes in Southwest Portland, and most recently on the East side.

A California native, Yuille moved to Portland in the early 1990s, drawn by Oregon's natural wilderness and outdoor opportunities. She loved to travel and visited Yellowstone National Park and other wilderness areas throughout the west.

She has a daughter, Jenna Passalacqua, 23, and a 13-year-old stepson, Hunter Yuille.

"She was a great person," said her daughter.

Her home in Northeast Portland's Montavilla neighborhood speaks to her personality. The walls are covered with photographs taken during her many trips. One depicts a climb up South Sister, another shows her husband standing not far from a buffalo at Yellowstone, others capture bears and rattlesnakes she saw in the wild.

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A few years ago they were hiking Mount Rainier when Robert tripped and broke his leg. An avid jogger who ran every morning with her white German shepherd Jack, Cindy ran for miles to find her husband medical aid -- and then ran miles back up the trail to where he lay, waiting.

"She put others first," he said.

"Cindy was a beloved caregiver for the kind and compassionate support she provided for patients and families at times of impending loss and need," Kaiser Spokesman Dave Northfield said in a statement. "Our hearts are with Cindy's husband and family as they absorb this tragedy and grieve."

Outside her home, the once-sparse lot is filled with trees, shrubs and perennials she planted. She loved the woods, and when she first moved to Portland, she used to do landscaping for others, her daughter said.

Cindy Yuille grew up in Southern California and earned her nursing degree from San Diego State University but she hated the heat, according to her stepson. She was happier skiing Bennett Pass with her husband, hiking Opal Creek, or running the Pints to Pasta 10-K she recently completed with her daughter.

Her stepson wonders if she was shopping for a hat he had asked for when she was shot. The family was told she was struck by a stray bullet.

She was "not a mall person," her husband said. She enjoyed the holidays and had put up a simple tree in the corner of her living room. But Christmas was not about buying a lot of gifts, her daughter said. Cindy Yuille didn't use wrapping paper because she wanted to save trees. She sewed and reused her own gift bags instead.

Her husband knew she had run to the mall for a few last-minute things.

"I called and called," he said. "She never answered."