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Navy servicewoman allegedly killed by ex-boyfriend had made video about domestic violence

CHICAGO - A woman who was gunned down last week in a suspected domestic violence attack near Chicago had made a video two years ago to raise awareness of abusive relationships.

Claire VanLandingham, a 27-year-old Navy officer and dentist, was fatally shot the morning of Jan. 3 in the downtown of the affluent North Shore suburb of Lake Forest, in what police believe was a murder-suicide committed by her ex-boyfriend.

In March 2016, when she was a

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