NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Marathon runner Abby Lokits remembers her first outdoor run after losing her sister-in-law, Alyssa Lokits.

“Oh, I cried, yeah,” Abby said. “It’s hard not to think about her every time I run.”

She thinks about her because she and Alyssa bonded over their love of being active outdoors, and because it’s what Alyssa was doing when she was killed. The 34-year-old Vanderbilt graduate was attacked and fatally shot last October while on the mill creek greenway.

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