It was an ordinary November afternoon in Nashville. Eighteen-year-old Jillian Ludwig, a freshman at Belmont University,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
had laced up her sneakers and gone out for a walk \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
a simple, quiet break from college life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She had no way of knowing it would be her last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jillian never came back from that walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A stray bullet, fired blocks away during an unrelated shooting, struck her in the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She wasn\u2019t discovered for nearly an hour. By the time she reached the hospital, her condition was described as \u201cextremely critical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overnight, the news no family should ever hear was delivered: Jillian was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her death sent shockwaves across Tennessee in 2023, when this happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not only for its senselessness, but because of who pulled the trigger and how he was free in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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