Medical student executed at close range by ex at breast cancer charity walk: cops

A promising Tennessee medical student was allegedly shot execution-style at a cancer charity walk over the weekend by her ex-boyfriend, who then led police on a dangerous multi-county car chase, cops said.Ellie Claire Young, 22, was fatally gunned down at the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event in Shelby Farms Park in Memphis around 12:15 p.m.Saturday, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said.Young was inside her Jeep in the parking lot when the suspect pulled up in a white Honda CRV and fired two shots into her car, ABC24 reported.She got out of the vehicle, and the gunman fired as least one more shot, a coup de grâce, as she lay on the ground, witnesses said.Young was a medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, FOX13 reported.“A beautiful soul inside and out, Ellie dedicated her life towards serving others, and was well on her way to becoming an incredible physician,” a tribute on the GoFundMe page set up in Young’s honor said.“She was walking sunshine, and the world is now a darker place without her,” the statement added.A witness said the shooting caused chaos at the charity event.

“I was having a good time and after I got through walking, I’m walking toward my car and these young ladies started running and the man, ‘Pow, pow’ and pulled off,” walk participant Monica Bell told FOX13 of the chaos.“It sounded like, you know, how a car backfires? That’s what it sounded like but come to find out, we got done with it, they said a man shot his wife in the head,” added another witness.Young died at the scene.The suspect, Young’s former boyfriend Jackson Hopper, 26, allegedly fled the scene in the CRV. He was pursued during a tense chase by officers from both the town of Mason and the Tipton County Sheriff’s Office.At one point, Hopper allegedly even tried to run over a Tipton County Constable who was deploying stop sticks, cops said.The chase continued through Lauderdale and into Dyer County.At aroun...