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Hospital employees honor UNC Charlotte shooting victims at walk

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A group of employees from Carolinas ContinueCARE Hospital at University held a walk Saturday to honor the victims of the UNC Charlotte mass shooting.

More than a dozen people walked through campus and stopped at the Kennedy Building, where the April 30 shooting occurred, to pray for the victims, their families and the university.

Some of those who attended told Channel 9 they were compelled to support the grieving community located just steps from their own campus.

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“Our hospital was on lockdown, so it obviously touched very close to home,” CCCH employee Jennifer Fair said, adding her daughter was supposed to be on campus at the time the shooting happened, but thankfully wasn’t.

All of the proceeds from Saturday’s walk are going to the Niner Nation Fund.