HAMPTON — Steve Blizzard. Ronald Jeffers. Scott and Shirley Leavitt.
“We will never forget their names,” Hampton Mayor Ann Tarpley said in a sermon-like address during Monday night’s candlelight vigil to honor and remember the four residents who were killed Saturday during a mass shooting in the small south Henry County town.
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