Even after shooting, Tennessee family counts its blessings

Grant Edmonds, with wife Crystal and daughters Melea, Lydia and Abby, before the shooting.

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What kind of guy is Grant Edmonds?
“He’s the kind of guy,” Jeff Phillips told me, “who’ll show up and cut your yard, and you’ll not know who it was, and he’ll never tell you.
“He’s the kind of guy,” added Phillips, youth and involvement minister for the Covington Church of Christ, north of Memphis, Tenn., “who, if he saw somebody in need, would help them.”
In a word, he’s a “servant,” said his close friend and brother in Christ.
What kind of guy is Grant Edmonds? He’s the kind who, when a robber shoots him in the belly, covers the wound with his hand and drives himself to the hospital, according to friends, family and a Memphis police report.

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