Severe weather leaves 6 dead as tornadoes tear across Tennessee
A toddler was among six people killed when tornadoes struck Nashville and the Tennessee town of Clarksville early Saturday evening, officials said. Dozens more were injured.
Nashville police said in a statement Sunday that 2-year-old Anthony Elmer Mendez was killed alongside his mom, Floridema Gabriel Perez, 31, in a northern community of Nashville along Nesbitt Lane. Joseph Dalton, 37, was also killed, the statement said.
Perez’s 7-year-old son and Dalton’s 10-year-old son were “transported to Vanderbilt Pediatrics with non-life threatening injuries,” police said.