A group of more than one hundred gathered outside Greeneville High School Wednesday night at a prayer vigil for 16-year-old Teagan Welch.

A parent of a fellow band member told WVLT News that the band director at the school announced to fellow students that Welch died Thursday.

She was shot during what police are calling a custodial exchange Monday, outside a Pilot gas station in White Pine.

Welch was an organ donor and the parent said she saved eight lives.

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A Harriman man is dead, a minister on life support, and a 16-year-old girl is in critical condition.  All as a result of a shooting in the parking lot of a Pilot gas station located at 3663 Roy Messer Highway in White Pine, according to Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Coffey.

The shooting happened Monday afternoon. Officials with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that the incident stemmed from a custody drop-off between two parents who were meeting to change custody of their child.

Christopher Ray Welch, 48, of Harriman, Tennessee, was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the White Pine Police Department.

The two injured:   58-year-old Rev. Kenny Cook. Cook is at the University of Tennessee Medical Center on life-support. A 16-year-old girl whose name has not been released was taken to the hospital, law enforcement officials said. As of Tuesday morning, officials said that they both were in critical condition.