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Hundreds gathered in Memphis, Tennessee in the early hours of Friday, Sept. 9, to run in honor of Eliza Fletcher, a schoolteacher who was abducted and killed last week.
Video from Duke Akiba shows runners gathering before the “Finish Liza’s Run” event just after 4 a.m. on Friday morning, the time Fletcher was abducted on Sept. 2, local media said.
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“We created this run as a way to honor Liza and cope with our own feelings. This run is 8.2 miles taking a path she would regularly run,” according to the event details on Facebook.
Other footage posted to social media showed people singing “This Little Light of Mine” in unison and holding up lights.
Fletcher, 34, was abducted on an early morning run in Memphis last Friday. Her body was found the following Monday, police said.
A suspect, 38-year-old Cleotha Henderson, has been charged with Fletcher’s murder.
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Police in Memphis, Tennessee have arrested a man they say drove around the city for hours shooting at people.
A string of high-profile killings rattling Memphis this week has touched off new calls for tougher sentencing laws.
Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said Tuesday that a body found during a search the day before is a woman who was abducted and forced into an SUV during an early morning jog.
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