Wed
Aug 3 2022
09:20 pm
A four-year-old boy from Memphis, Nashville ICU nurse Caitlyn Kaufman and 36-year-old Christopher Sparks have all been killed in Tennessee during shootings that police attribute to road rage.
Study: TN has 3rd most road rage shootings per capita in the US
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