RALEIGH, N.C (WNCN) — Step into Ginny and Tom Marshall’s house and you’ll see angels and family photos everywhere. What’s missing in the most recent pictures is their daughter Mary.  “She was kind, and caring, and loved her family and her friends," Ginny said. "She had the biggest heart that you would ever see.” Both her and Tom’s faces light up when Mary is mentioned, especially when they talk about all Mary accomplished. She was a proud Navy veteran, someone who wasn’t afraid to tell the truth, and a loyal person with friends all across the world, her parents say. Mary was one of five people killed in Raleigh’s Hedingham mass shooting in October of 2022.  “She was shot in the back," Tom said. "They say she never knew what hit her … just out with her dog.” On that day, Tom got a call about something happening in the neighborhood. He raced there in his car, but immediately saw a massive law enforcement response and knew something was wrong. It wasn’t until hours later that he and his wife knew what happened to their daughter. “One of the other officers got a call and it was about a tattoo, and I heard him say whatever the words were she had as a tattoo, and we both said, 'How did you know that?' And that’s when it hit me,” Ginny explained. “And then when the other officer came back and it took him a minute to get out of his car, and she wasn’t in the car, we knew.” “Total breakdown,” Tom said. “I just couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know what to say. I just laid there on the ground just crying.” Now, over two years later, the Marshalls are still waiting for some semblance of closure.  This week, defense attorneys for the accused teenage shooter Austin Thompson filed a motion to delay the trial until January of 2026, citing a mound of evidence to go through and the complexity of the case since Thompson was 15 at the time of the shooting.  “I don’t understand it, it’s been over two years,” Tom said. “I would like it to be over and done with so we can have some closure," Ginny added. "I’ll never have [total] closure, I’ll never know why.” Neither of them want the case delayed any further. For over two years now, they’ve been waiting, all while keeping Mary close. “There are still plenty of nights that we go to bed and we have tears, Ginny goes outside and talks to her, looking at the sky all the time,” Tom said. “The first star, you know you always say 'starlight, starbright.' I know it’s Venus, that’s the first one out there, but I always feel it’s her, and I’ll go out and talk to her through the window," Ginny said. "It makes me feel better.” Ginny keeps a framed art piece of a cardinal in the home and says she sees cardinals outback often. She believes it’s Mary visiting. “She was our golden child,” she said. When asked what they would say to Mary today if she were in the room: “That I love her, and I miss her, and I’m sorry that this happened. It shouldn’t have happened to a person like her, she was too good of a person,” Ginny said. “Definitely,” Tom said. “I would hold her as long as I could.” Right now Thompson is set to go to trial in September, but if the judge grants his motion, it’ll be pushed back to at least January of 2026.