Baltimore County Police have identified two people found dead Sunday morning as couple Ami Lynn Garrison, 40, and Daniel Allen Doran, 41.
Police said both were found with apparent gunshot wounds at the house where they lived in the 3000 block of Willow Ave. in Edgemere. Police would not elaborate on the circumstances of their death, but said they were killed following a barricade situation that arose from a “family dispute.”Garrison, who survived a traumatic brain injury in an accident in 2008, was remembered as a warm and welcoming presence at Robbie’s Bar and Restaurant in Sparrows Point, an establishment she ran with her father. Friend Sarah Jaskulski remembers how when her own daughter needed to sell Girl Scout cookies, Garrison insisted that she come sell them at the bar — they’d make her a top seller.
“She was all about building up other people,” Jaskulski said. “Making people know and feel their worth.” In photos on her Facebook profile, Garrison is blonde and smiling, posing with her family, or dressed up in green beads for St. Patrick’s Day.
More than a decade ago, Garrison was in a car crash that broke her back and her neck, and rattled her brain in its skull. Hospitalized at the University of Maryland’s Shock Trauma Center, she was in a coma for a month.
“I slept through the worst part,” Garrison later joked in a WYPR radio interview with Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks.