Two of the victims of Monday’s school shooting in Nashville were longtime family friends of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and his wife, the governor shared in a video address Tuesday night.
Lee claimed that Cynthia Peak, 61, was scheduled to have dinner with Tennessee’s first lady, Maria Lee, at the governor’s mansion on Monday night—but never made it. Instead, she was killed while substitute teaching at The Covenant School alongside five others, including three children. He also named the school’s late headmistress, Katherine Koontz, saying the three women have been friends for years.
“Maria woke up this morning without one of her best friends,” the governor said in a video posted to Twitter.