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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Tennessee governor reveals Nashville shooting victim was friend and was due to have dinner with him that night

Bill Lee

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has revealed that two of the staff members killed in the Nashville school shooting were family friends of his – and that one of them had been due to have dinner with him and his wife on the night that she was killed.

The Republican governor – who loosened gun laws in the state – released a video statement on Tuesday saying that his wife Maria’s best friend was among the six victims of the mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

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