Rep. Brooks named the proposed legislation "Akilah's Law" in honor of her late son, who was one of four people shot and killed in the Nashville Waffle House shooting in April 2018.

Rep. Brooks named the proposed legislation “Akilah’s Law” in honor of her late son, who was one of four people shot and killed in the Nashville Waffle House shooting in April 2018.

As a gun control bill picks up steam in the Tennessee General Assembly, mental health advocates question the scope of the law ...

Days after a deadly shooting, Florida State University students who also survived a deadly mass shooting in Parkland from ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV ... who was one of four victims in the 2018 Waffle House shooting in Antioch. She has been fighting for gun reform on a state and national level. The shooter was a ...

Rep. Shaundelle Brooks, a Hermitage Democrat, cries after her firearm bill advances from the Tennessee House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on March 26, 2025. The bill is named for her son Akilah ...

Rep. Shaundelle Brooks, a Hermitage Democrat, named the bill "Akilah's Law" in honor of her son Akilah Dasilva, who was killed in a mass shooting at a Nashville Waffle House in 2018. The shooter ...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified Monday at a defamation trial that an editorial about gun control in The New York ...

ATLANTA - Police say a fight at a Waffle House led to gunfire in Atlanta. Investigators say the shots rang out at the ...