Man In Tennessee Goes To Christian Girl And Shoots Her To Death. Before Being Murdered, She Sings “Jesus Loves Me”

DeEbony Groves, the 21-year-old Christian Belmont University student who was shot dead along with three others in a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee, sang “Jesus Loves Me” inside the restaurant shortly before she took her final breath.

Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer made the revelation in a short address at Groves’ funeral service Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Gallatin where he said his company was grieving for the victims of the massacre.

“We went and visited with the survivors and they talked about the people who were in that restaurant before what happened happened, and specifically remembered your daughter and spoke of your daughter and her friend, and said that they were singing Gospel songs,” Ehmer said, as hundreds of mourners who had gathered to pay their respects shouted “hallelujah” and clapped inside the church.

“And everybody was singing and enjoying each other and she said the last thing I remember her saying was, singing ‘Jesus Loves Me,’” he continued. “And so I can’t offer you many words of encouragement or comfort. All I can tell you is that our Waffle House family is hurting for you and with you. And I know there are so many people in this room that are so close to her [and] will never forget her. And I can promise you this — We will never forget your daughter.”

Wearing nothing but a green jacket and naked from the waist down at about 3:25 a.m. on April 22, gunman Travis Reinking, 29, attacked the Waffle House just outside of Nashville, with an AR-15 rifle, starting in the parking lot, authorities said.

He killed 29-year-old restaurant employee Taurean C. Sanderlin of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, who was shot while standing outside, according to The Washington Post. Groves was among three Waffle House customers who did not survive the attack. The others were: Joe R. Perez, 20, of Nashville and Akilah Dasilva, 23, of Antioch.