Breaking news BILL MONEY SHOT Black Dogs owner clinging to life after assassination attempt in Livingston

After an Overton County ambulance transported Bill Money to the Livingston Regional Hospital, he was airlifted by helicopter to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville.

By R.E. Porter
Associated Web Press

Bill Money, East Nashville Black Dogs owner and independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, was shot and critically wounded last night while campaigning in the city of Livingston located in Overton County in the Upper Cumberland region of the state.

According to Livingston police chief Bubba Johnson, Money was shaking hands and working the crowd near the concessions stand at halftime of the Livingston Academy-Smith County high school football game Friday night when a small woman with dark hair approached him and shot him multiple times pointblank in the chest with a handgun. Witnesses said the woman yelled, "This is for Hillary," prior to firing three shots at the candidate. The shooter escaped in the ensuing chaos. 

As is always the case with high school football games, emergency medical personnel were on hand and able to rush Money to Livingston Regional Hospital where a helicopter awaited to airlift him to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville. At Vanderbilt shortly after midnight, Doctor Lionel Godwin performed life-saving surgery on the former NFFA commissioner. When reached this afternoon, Godwin said Money has only a 50-50 chance of survival and might not make it through the weekend.

Money's daughters, Cash and Mo, and Black Dogs player-coach Marshawn Lynch were waiting at the hospital when Money was brought in. Lynch said Money spoke to him briefly on his way into the operating room. "Bill squeezed my hand and whispered 'No matter what happens to me, beat the Ballers,'" Lynch told AWP. "And that's what we gotta do; we gotta run through through some Pie Town muthafucka's face for Bill."

When reached for comment, Money campaign manager F.G. Handy said he had "no idea" what the shooter meant when she yelled, "This is for Hillary." Continuing Handy said "We're all praying for Bill to pull through. He's a fighter, as anyone who really knows him will tell you, so my money's on Money."

The AWP will have more on this story as it develops.