{"id":777353,"date":"2026-05-06T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777353\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:40:19","slug":"jso-corrections-officer-rebuilds-memorial-to-victims-of-jacksonville-dollar-general-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777353\/","title":{"rendered":"JSO corrections officer rebuilds memorial to victims of Jacksonville Dollar General shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corrections Ofc. Mary Malcom said her heart was broken when she noticed the memorial had been destroyed a week ago, and took it upon herself to rebuild it.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A week after a memorial for three people killed in the mass shooting at a Jacksonville Dollar General in 2023 was destroyed<\/a>, one Jacksonville woman took it upon herself to rebuild, with help from her family.<\/p>\n

Mary Malcolm, a corrections officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, drives by the store on Kings Road after work every day, according to JSO.<\/p>\n


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Malcom noticed the community-built memorial had been destroyed, and took it upon herself to rebuild the site with the help of her husband and nine children.<\/p>\n

“If it was my family I would want someone to do the same for me,” Malcom told First Coast News.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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JSO said in a Facebook post that Malcom told them she had never built a memorial before, but listened to what her heart told her to do.<\/p>\n

“We are incredibly proud of Corrections Officer Malcom\u2019s heart for her community, not just in this moment, but in every moment she serves Jacksonville,” JSO said in the post.<\/p>\n

Angela Carr, Jerrald Gallion and A.J. Laguerre, Jr. were shot and killed in the racially motivated attack in 2023. The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

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The memorial, which sits just outside the store on Kings Road, was originally created by community members to honor the victims.<\/p>\n

On April 27, the three memorial displays were found heavily damaged. Two were completely destroyed, while all had photos torn from their frames and flowers scattered across the ground.<\/p>\n

“This community needed help,” Malcom told First Coast News. “The family needed help. I am a servant from God and my job is to help people who need it the most. It’s about giving back and doing the right thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corrections Ofc. Mary Malcom said her heart was broken when she noticed the memorial had been destroyed a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":777354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-777353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116527919483194336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777353","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=777353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}