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Mom of Slain Cobb Marine Severs Ties With Charity

Skip Wells was killed in the Chattanooga mass shooting last year.

Cathy Wells, the Cobb County mother of a Marine killed in last year's Chattanooga mass shooting, is severing ties with a charity that was raising money for her son's foundation.

An organization known as Marines and Mickey helped raise money for the Skip Wells Foundation, reports WSB-TV. Now, Cathy Wells says Marines and Mickey's founder, John Simpson, has been misappropriating funds.

The goal of the Skip Wells Foundation is to raise money for the ROTC and band programs at Sprayberry High School.

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