Authorities said writings left by the killer, a 21-year-old white man, made clear that he was motivated by racism. Each victim was Black.
People walk past the Dollar General store where three people were shot and killed the day before on August 27, 2023 in Jacksonville, Florida. A.J. Laguerre worked at a Dollar General store after finishing high school to help support the grandmother who raised him. Angela Michelle Carr was an Uber driver beloved by her children. Jerrald Gallion relished weekends with his 4-year-old daughter.
When he was off the clock, A.J. played Fortnite and other videogames on the live-streaming platform Twitch, his brother said, using the gamer tag galaxysoul. His goal was to build a large online following. "My mother, she was a good woman," son Chayvaughn Payne told The Associated Press in a brief phone call Monday.
"My brother shouldn’t have lost his life," his sister, Latiffany Gallion, said. "A simple day of going to the store, and he’s taken away from us forever." "He was so excited about it, talking about the colors they would wear," Rozier said, as Je Asia played with the microphones during Monday’s news conference. "Now she’s asking, ‘Who shot my daddy?’ "
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