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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: TomSea on May 05, 2019, 03:56:16 pm
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UNC Charlotte hero to be buried with military honors
By Louis Casiano | Fox News
The 21-year-old University of North Carolina Charlotte student who died trying to stop a gunman on campus this week will be buried with full military honors, a funeral home in his hometown told local media outlets.
Wells Funeral Homes in Waynesville told FOX 46 in Charlotte that Riley Howell would receive the military burial. Howell died in a classroom after tackling and charring Trystan 22-year-old Andrew Terrell.
"Absolutely, Mr. Howell saved lives," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said at a news conference this week, adding that Howell "did exactly what we train people to do."
More at: https://www.foxnews.com/us/unc-charlotte-hero-to-be-buried-with-military-honors (https://www.foxnews.com/us/unc-charlotte-hero-to-be-buried-with-military-honors)
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Very fitting. RIP young man.