Local man dead after Chattanooga shooting

Ohio Gov. John Kasich offered his condolences in a tweet: “Ohio has lost another hero”.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, 26, was shot three times in the attack and had undergone surgery.

The U.S. Navy says that the sailor who was shot earlier this week at a military support center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has died.

Darlene Proxmire, the step-grandmother of Randall Smith, called NewsChannel 15 in Fort Wayne, Saturday morning and said he passed away around 4 a.m. He was originally from Paulding, Ohio. The Navy statement did not give the sailor’s name.

In Paulding High School, Smith had been a star baseball athlete under head coach Joel Parrett. Some of his family lives in Delphos, Kansas, a town just north of Minneapolis.

The college said he attended for a semester in fall 2007.

Photo shared from Facebook. He had three little girls.

“I cannot believe our soldiers do not have guns there”, she said. “He loved his family”.

On Memorial Day, he posted a photo of a young mother and child embracing next to the distinctive rounded gravestone of a fallen service member in Arlington National Cemetery. “In case you thought it was about a 3 day weekend, parties or the beach.”& lt; /p>. You think, well that will never happen to your family, but by gum, it can. “We are exploring all travel that he has done and we have asked our intelligence partners throughout the world to provide us with any information they may have”, Ed Reinhold of the FBI said at a news conference.