Father Of St. Louis School Shooting Victim Speaks Out: ‘Alexandria Was My Everything’

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Father Of St. Louis School Shooting Victim Speaks Out: ‘Alexandria Was My Everything’

A community was devastated yesterday after a St. Louis school shooting left a teacher and a student dead and seven others injured.

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