SANDY — On the day that she died, Vanessa Quinn gave her husband Rich a long kiss goodbye.

"The one thing is, when you get up in the morning and you leave your loved one, for some reason, she gave me a really passionate kiss that morning," Rich Quinn said. "I don't know why, but I'm glad she did."

Quinn reflected Wednesday on his wife's horrific death Monday evening. He was meeting her to finally buy her a wedding band that night, when the shooting rampage began.

"We got married four years ago. We didn't have money. We never wore wedding rings. I was meeting her there to buy a wedding ring," he said, sobbing. "I called and told her to come. ... "

Salt Lake City police believe Vanessa Quinn, 29, was gunned down by 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic as she walked by the Williams-Sonoma store inside the mall.

"I saw a guy stop. He turned, there was a girl standing in front of our store, and he shot her," Marie Smith, a clerk at Bath and Body Works said Monday night.

When the shooting started, Rich Quinn was hurried out of the mall and couldn't find his wife in the panicked crowds.

"I couldn't get ahold of her. I was calling, I was texting, but if you know Vanessa, the chances of her cell phone having a charge in it were pretty remote," he said, chuckling slightly. "I honestly didn't think anything was wrong."

He returned to their home, but when time passed with no word, he and his friends went back to Trolley Square.

"I asked the police for information. They didn't give me any," he said.

His brother had seen photographs of a body inside the Trolley Square mall on the Internet. Quinn said he walked over to a news photographer, asked to look through his lens and saw his wife.

"I knew instantly it was her, even though you couldn't see her face," he said. "The clothes, the way her shirt was pulled up. I knew it was her."

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, he offered his thanks to Ken Hammond, the off-duty Ogden police officer who got into a shootout with Talovic. Surrounded by family and friends, Quinn also offered condolences to the other victims' families.

"We send our condolences to the other families because we know what they're going through," said Rich Quinn's brother, Ed.

Rich met Vanessa in Ohio in 1999. They shared their first kiss on a New Year's Eve. Family members described her as an adventurous woman and a skilled soccer player. In 2001, Rich Quinn said they moved to Utah, and she got a job at at Overstock.com.