On the roller derby track, Colleen Hendrickson-Bass was a “tenacious” player whose bright pink helmet could be picked out of the crowded playing surface, according to teammates.

Off it, she was kind, happy and always willing to lend a hand.

Hendrickson-Bass, 57, was working as an Eastern State Hospital security guard in the early Saturday hours when she was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Medical Lake psychiatric hospital. The man suspected of shooting her exchanged gunfire with a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputy, the sheriff’s office said. The shooter died at the scene.

Deirdre Farnsworth, Hendrickson-Bass’ sister, described her sister as a “social butterfly” who helped anyone she could.

“She always had a smile on her face and she was funny, and she was kind,” Farnswor

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