Qualla: The Pathway Home

The Pathway Home: Introduction

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Jennifer Gonzales Shushereba was seven months pregnant. Jennifer Golick had just started a family of her own. Christine Loeber had given years of her career to helping veterans reenter civilian life. On March 9, 2018, all three women were killed at the place where they worked -- a residential treatment center called The Pathway Home, on the grounds of the Veterans Home of California in Yountville. Their killer was a former patient, a man the program had been designed to save.

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The Pathway Home: A Place Meant for Healing

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Veterans Home of California in Yountville is the largest veterans' home in the United States, a sprawling campus of tree-lined paths and stately buildings in the heart of Napa Valley wine country. Within that campus, The Pathway Home occupied leased space where it ran a resid...

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The Pathway Home: A Friday Morning in March

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Albert Wong, a 36-year-old Army veteran who had served in Afghanistan, had been a resident of The Pathway Home for nearly a year before being expelled over concerns about threatening behavior. A family member later told reporters that Wong had been found with knives at the facili...

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The Pathway Home: Hours Without Answers

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Napa County deputies arrived quickly and exchanged gunfire with Wong near the entrance. Then silence. For hours, three hostage-negotiation teams worked the scene while law enforcement surrounded the building. Teenagers who had been visiting the campus were evacuated. Residents of...

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The Pathway Home: What Closed and What Remained

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Pathway Home suspended operations immediately. Its remaining clients were placed with other programs. By August 2018, the nonprofit's board announced it would terminate its lease, acknowledging that the location itself had become inseparable from the trauma of what happened t...

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The Pathway Home: Three Brave Women

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In the weeks after the shooting, a fund was established in the victims' names: the Three Brave Women Fund. Christine Loeber had led The Pathway Home as executive director. Jennifer Golick served as clinical director, overseeing the therapeutic work. Jennifer Gonzales Shushereba, ...

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