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Visitation continues for slain metro Atlanta Marine

A U.S. Marine walks out of the visitation of Lance Cpl. Skip Wells, Friday, July 24, 2015, in Kennesaw, Ga. The Georgia Marine gunned down at a Navy-Marine reserve center in Chattanooga, Tenn., will be buried following his funeral Sunday at Georgia National Cemetery in Canton. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
A U.S. Marine walks out of the visitation of Lance Cpl. Skip Wells, Friday, July 24, 2015, in Kennesaw, Ga. The Georgia Marine gunned down at a Navy-Marine reserve center in Chattanooga, Tenn., will be buried following his funeral Sunday at Georgia National Cemetery in Canton. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) – Mourners are expected to continue paying their respects to a metro Atlanta Marine who was fatally shot in attacks on military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Visitation for 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Squire “Skip” Wells is scheduled to continue Saturday at the Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home in Kennesaw from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Mourners began paying their respects to Wells on Friday afternoon, and his funeral is set for 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Woodstock.

Wells was remembered during a memorial at Sprayberry High School in Marietta on Tuesday night as a hardworking and enthusiastic Marine who had been eager to enlist in the military.

Wells attended Sprayberry High School and Georgia Southern University before enlisting.