{"id":172385,"date":"2025-08-24T18:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172385\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:53:13","slug":"city-community-organizations-to-honor-victims-survivors-of-racist-2023-dollar-general-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172385\/","title":{"rendered":"City, community organizations to honor victims, survivors of racist 2023 Dollar General shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 Two years after three lives were tragically taken in shooting at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/Dollar_General\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/Dollar_General\/\">Dollar General<\/a> on Kings Road, the city of Jacksonville and other community organizations are honoring those victims and survivors on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On August 26, 2023,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2024\/08\/26\/1-year-after-deadly-racist-attack-at-jacksonville-dollar-general-community-remembers-the-lives-lost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2024\/08\/26\/1-year-after-deadly-racist-attack-at-jacksonville-dollar-general-community-remembers-the-lives-lost\/\"> Angela Carr, A.J. Laguerre Jr. and Jerald Gallion<\/a> were shot and killed in the racially-motivated shooting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation declated a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>MORE: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2024\/08\/14\/historic-marker-to-honor-victims-of-racist-dollar-general-attack-to-be-unveiled-during-aug-25-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2024\/08\/14\/historic-marker-to-honor-victims-of-racist-dollar-general-attack-to-be-unveiled-during-aug-25-ceremony\/\"><b>Historic marker to honor victims of racist Dollar General attack to be unveiled during ceremony<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">It was a shooting that left a stain of emotion and heartbreak throughout the Jacksonville community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The ceremony will be held at Kings Road Memorial Park at 2245 11th Street West. Just in case it rains, the ceremony will be moved to Mt. Calvary Church on 2360 Kings Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Mayor Donna Deegan, Councilwoman Ju\u2019Coby Pittman, and Sheriff T.K. Waters along with other organizations will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">It begins at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Two years after three lives were tragically taken in shooting at a Dollar General on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,98355,8314,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-172385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dollar-general-shooting","10":"tag-duval-county","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115085259772466909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}