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Ryan Fahey

Nashville school shooting: first funeral held for nine-year-old "shining light" victim

The first funeral has taken place for one of the six victims of Monday’s school shooting in Nashville.

Before nine-year-old Evelyn Dieckhaus’ funeral at the Woodmont Christian Church in Nashville’s Green Hills neighbourhood, senior minister Rev Clay Stauffer said: “She was a shining light. She was radiant.

“I think our challenge is to take her light and keep spreading it to a world that has so much darkness and pain.

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