Runners in cities throughout the country gathered to honor and mourn the life of Eliza 'Liza' Fletcher, a Memphis mother and teacher who was abducted while jogging and later found dead.
"You can go out at noon and suffer harassment or suffer violence. Women know that all too well, whether it's running or just in their daily life," Beth Meadows, the race director at Nashville Running Company, told ABC Nashville affiliateat the city's run on Friday. "That's another reason to why I think everyone across the country is running at this time of day, to say, you know, women should be safe at all hours.
"Like so many women today, I feel that I am Liza -- I am a mom, and I a wife, a runner," she told ABC Chattanooga affiliate. "For her situation to end up the way it did is just horrifying and hard to wrap your head around." Runners make their way down Main Street in Tupelo, Miss. as they hold their"Liza's Lights" run early Friday morning, Spet. 9, 2022, in Tupelo Miss., to remember Eliza Fletcher, who was abducted and murdered while she was running in the early morning hours in Memphis, Tenn.
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