It’s been two years.

Two years since a gunman drove from Clay County to a Jacksonville Dollar General on Kings Road.

Two years since he started shooting and took the lives of three innocent people.

Two years since the tragic shooting galvanized an entire community that is still trying to find healing in the midst of the pain.

On August 26, 2023, 52-year-old Angela Carr, 19-year-old A.J. Laguerre Jr. and 29-year-old Jerald Gallion were senselessly shot and killed in the racially-motivated shooting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation declared a hate crime.

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