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An 18-year-old girl was shot dead by a boy her same age a day after she graduated from Page High School in Franklin, Tennessee.

An 18-year-old girl in Nashville was shot and killed just a day after graduating high school, according to authorities.

Lily Basil, 18, a high school graduate from Tennessee, was accidentally shot and killed by Matthew Roufail, 18, who believed his AR-15 style rifle was unloaded. Roufail has been charged with criminal homicide.

Lily Basil, 18, was struck in the right shoulder by a bullet from a rifle fired by Matthew Roufail before she was rushed to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, where she was later pronounced dead.

Lily Basil, 18, was pronounced dead on Saturday night after she was struck in the right shoulder

18-year-old Lily Basil was fatally shot in Tennessee on Saturday, one day after celebrating her high school graduation.

Lily Basil, Franklin, Tennessee girl accidentally shot dead by Matthew Roufail one day after graduating from high school.

According to the affidavit, Roufail admitted to shooting Basil with what he thought was an unloaded AR-15-style rifle.

A Franklin teenager was arrested in the shooting death of a recent high school graduate, but he claims he did not know the gun was loaded.

A teenager told Franklin police he didn't know a gun was loaded after the deadly shooting of a teen girl during Memorial Day weekend.