Robert Wade

On a hot Sunday in mid-August 2023, Robert Anthony Wade, a 42-year-old man from Cookeville, Tennessee, spent what would be his final hours in the rolling countryside south of town. Born in Lebanon, Tennessee, he had built his life in Cookeville, the place he most recently called home. The day began like any other summer weekend day in the Upper Cumberland, quiet and unremarkable, with no hint that it would end in tragedy on a rural road called Pigeon Roost Creek.

That afternoon, just befo ...

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Robert Wade, age 42 - National Gun Violence Memorial