On May 8, 2011, Deena McLean, 52, was killed at her home in Georgetown, Texas, in a domestic violence attack that also took the lives of her husband, Pat McLean, and her daughter, Shauna Kay Lopez, 27. Other relatives and Shauna’s 1-year-old child escaped without physical injury.

Lopez fled but later died in a car crash while evading police; the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department investigated the scene. A memorial service for the family was held May 15, 2011, at Sneed Funeral Chapel in Lampasas, Texas. Deena was described as a homemaker devoted to raising her children.