A makeshift memorial outside Dollar General honors the three people killed there Aug. 26, 2023 — Jerrald Gallion, Angela Carr and "AJ" Laguerre. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
Published on August 18, 2025 at 11:35 am
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The victims of the Dollar General shooting two years ago in Jacksonville’s Newtown community will be remembered at a memorial ceremony Sunday at Kings Road Memorial Park.
The ceremony at 3 p.m. will feature reflections on the racially motivated shooting from community leaders, faith leaders and families.
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The event is sponsored by City Council member Ju’Coby Pittman, the city, advocacy group 904Ward and others.
“It provides the Jacksonville community an opportunity to come together in solidarity, remembrance, and healing, while reaffirming the commitment to address violence and build a more united community,” Pittman wrote in her announcement of the ceremony.”
Jerrald Gallion, Anolt “AJ” Laguerre and Angela Carr were shot and killed Aug. 26, 2023, at the Dollar General on Kings Road.
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Hours after the shooting, Sheriff T.K. Waters said the gunman wore tactical gear and set out to kill Black people, texting his father to check his computer after he left Clay County and headed to Jacksonville.
His parents found a diatribe in the computer that detailed the gunman’s hatred for Black people, Waters said. The man also left messages for the news media and the FBI that contained an “ideology of hate,” Waters said.
The shooters’ parents contacted the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, but by then, the shooting had begun.
The site where the ceremony will be held at Kings Road and Almeda Street was renamed Kings Road Memorial Park. Pittman proposed the new name, and City Council approved it unanimously.
A historical marker was unveiled there last year, on the first anniversary of the shooting. The park is within blocks of the Dollar General, which has reopened.
The Community Foundation and the A. L. Lewis Black Opportunity & Impact Fund are co-sponsoring Sunday’s memorial.
