Family members of a 12-year-old Memphis boy who was fatally shot at home after he wrote a letter to Gov. Bill Lee opposing Tennessee’s permitless carry gun law are leading a push for changes to state law to prevent further violence.
Artemis Rayford even said “people will be murdered” because of the new law in his letter to the Republican governor, which he wrote through the Gang Resistance Education And Training program with the Memphis Police Department and his school. Artemis was fatally struck by a bullet that entered his home early on Christmas. He had been playing a video game.