College student killed in Dalton robbery

<p>Whitfield County sheriff's investigators have made no arrests in the Friday night shooting death of a 19-year-old college student in the parking lot of a Dalton bowling alley.</p><p>Thomas Dexter Canavan of Jackson, Ga., was shot in the chest by two men trying to rob him and his friends outside the Galaxy Bowl on Cleveland Highway, authorities said. Canavan, who was in town visiting a college roommate, died later during surgery at Hamilton Medical Center.</p><p>Authorities said Canavan was in a car with three of his friends when they were approached by two males who attempted to rob them. One of the males fired a gun into the car, hitting Canavan in the chest. Canavan's friends immediately drove him to the emergency room.</p><p>He was a freshman majoring in chemistry at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Ga.</p><p>Ken McGill, head of the department of chemistry and physics at the college said Canavan planned to be a pharmacist.</p><p>"He was one of the students you could tell was going to be successful," McGill said. "He wasn't the best student in the world, but he had a tenacity that would carry him through."</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd9fac)</p>

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