By Denise Wong, KOLO TV

That shooting tragedy in Arizona is hitting very close to home. We’ve learned two of the victims had grown up in Reno and raised their children here.

76-year-old Dorothy Morris was one of the six people killed in the shooting. She was known as Dorothy Burns when she was a student at Reno High School. That’s where she met her future husband, George Morris. He was also shot and is in the hospital. The couple’s friends can’t believe what’s happened.

“They’re so well known here in Reno. They were born and raised here. High school sweethearts,” says Marilyn Melton. She’s still in shock after learning what’s happened to Dorothy and George Morris, near their home in Arizona. Before the couple moved to the Tucson area about 13 years ago, they had built a life here in Reno.

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