he s on the run. this what is he looks like. he s suspected of making off with $73,000 that was donated to help the families of the newtown shooting victims. a lot of people, including authorities want to talk to this guy. he s the founder of a group called 26-4-26. a foundation that held an impromptu marathon 26 miles for the 26 victims just a week after the massacre. the event raised $30,000, money that was delivered to newtown to fund a youth center. after the race the charity kept raising money. $73,000 in all. now this guy rob-e bruce personally met with some of the families and gained their trust. he got particularly close to the family of victoria soto, a first grade teacher killed in the attack. she was just 27 years old. she died trying to protect her young students. here s a photograph of mr. bruce meeting with her brother matthew soto. you ll hear from him in just a moment. after all of his assurances to the newtown families about his charity being legit, now robbie
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he s suspected of making off with $73,000 that was donated to help the families of the newtown shooting victims. a lot of people. including authorities, want to talk to this guy. he s the founder of a group called 26-4-26. a foundation that held an impromptu marathon 26 miles for the 26 victims just a week after the massacre. the event raised $30,000, money that was delivered to newtown to fund a youth center. after the race the charity kept raising money. $73,000 in all. this guy robby bruce personally met with some of the families and gained their trust. he got particularly close to the family of victoria soto, a first grade teacher killed in the attack. she was just 27 years old. she died trying to protect her young students. here s a photograph of mr. bruce meeting with her brother matthew soto. you ll hear from him in just a moment. after all of his assurances to the newtown families about his charity being legit, now robby bruce is nowhere to be found. he had sole access to the
that was delivered to newtown to fund a youth center. after the race the charity kept raising money. $73,000 in all. this guy robby bruce personally met with some of the families and gained their trust. he got particularly close to the family of victoria soto, a first grade teacher killed in the attack. she was just 27 years old. she died trying to protect her young students. here s a photograph of mr. bruce meeting with her brother matthew soto. you ll hear from him in just a moment. after all of his assurances to the newtown families about his charity being legit, now robby bruce is nowhere to be found. he had sole access to the money that 26-4-26 raised. $73,000 that s now unaccounted for. tonight the search to find him is heating up. investigative correspondent drew griffin joins me now from nashville with the latest. drew, what s going on? reporter: anderson, i can tell you the bottom line tonight just about everybody in the the state of tennessee is looking for robby bruce. we
disrespectful it was. and he just kind of just sat there and lied to me and then just blocked me off of facebook. blocked you on facebook? he blocked me, and he cut all ties with me. jillian, did he say anything about his past? do you know anything really about him? we didn t really know anything about him. it was more of he was a friend of some people in nashville. and they trusted him. he seemed like a good person. he wanted to do good like so many people wanted to do good out of what happened in sandy hook. but he just somewhere along the line something on a paddle board? so disgusting that anybody would do this kind of thing. obviously if he s out there listening to this, what do you want to say to him? just come clean. it s not worth what you re doing. it s not right that you re putting the 26 families through this, that you re putting my family through this. when you ve been in our house that, you re putting the cofounders of 26-4-26 through this. and making people