JSO corrections officer rebuilds memorial honoring victims of Jacksonville Dollar General shooting

JSO corrections officer rebuilds memorial honoring victims of Jacksonville Dollar General shooting

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.

Corrections officer rebuilds memorial to victims of Dollar General murders

Jacksonville corrections officer Mary Malcolm often stopped at a memorial commemorating the three people gunned down in a racially motivated shooting in 2023 at the Dollar General store on Kings Road. She pointed at the memorial site Wednesday. “This is not my family,” she said of the victims — A.J. Laguerre, Angela Carr and Jerald Gallion. “But this is my family.” So when the three-year veteran of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office’s saw that th…