She was told that her father had been shot dead.

"What did he tell you about the night his father was shot?"

His father was shot to death in a bar fight about the same time.

His father was shot on the road by the guards.

That July night, he'd shot his father in the head.

The father was then shot and died of his wounds.

The mother and father had been shot in their beds.

The father had apparently been shot to death and fallen to the ground.

Q. Where did the man who shot your father get his gun?

Or he might even shoot her father out of the darkness.