Two African-American Women Die From Gunshots Over Memorial Day Weekend in Middle Georgia

By Dave Oedel
Memorial Day weekend this year in Middle Georgia will not only invite recall of the nation’s fallen veterans. Two fresh casualties of civilian gun violence in Middle Georgia are now associated with Memorial Day 2015 – two African-American women.
On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 316 West Thomas Street in Milledgeville, Jaquisha Smith and her mother were both shot. Jaquisha Smith later died of multiple wounds to her chest and arm at Oconee Regional Medical Center.
Early the next morning in Macon, La’Smockie Fountain, 30, was found dead, with a gunshot wound to her head, behind the home of her grandmother at 3565 Case Street south of Mumford Road in Macon. Fountain’s grandmother heard two gunshots about 5:30 in the morning of May 23, 2015, and soon after found Fountain’s body behind the home.
Derrick Booze, 38, who had … Continue Reading
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