WAYNESVILLE, Ohio — Art can help a community come together when tragedy strikes.

That is why muralist Erica Arndts, a Centerville High School graduate who has been traveling the world painting murals for the last 10 years, sought someone with a barn for her to paint after the Sept. 10 fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, founder of the political nonprofit Turning Point USA.

“There’s a lot of people feeling sadness around what happened,” she said of the death of Kirk, who was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. “Painting a mural just gives people a shared space to handle their emotions.”

A friend from high school reached out on social media and told her of a barn owned by her boyfriend off Township Line Road near Ohio 73 in the Waynesville area.

The owner, Jeffrey Heil, had never

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