VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Marie Covington and her four children didn't have everything they wanted in life, but they always had each other.

That bond was broken on the night of Aug. 17, 2022, however, when Covington, a beloved employee of Wawa, got into a dispute with her boyfriend, Gary Morton, and was shot to death.

"It's all kind of fuzzy," said Marie Covington's younger daughter, Carla Covington, saying they try to push it aside "so we don't have to relive those nightmares and everything that came with that." "We try to push that to the death so we don't have to relive those nightmares and everything that came with that.

"It was more like some type of argument," Carla Covington said, "some throwing items by him and some breaking stuff hitting walls, just him going on a little ram

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