LAKELAND Shawanda Lamones, 39, and her mother, 70-year-old Maebelle Cooper Laster, had plans to make gingerbread houses with Lamones’ four children on Christmas Eve.
Instead, at 5:40 p.m., Laster lay fatally wounded in Lamones’ Amos Avenue front yard and Lamones, her husband Ralph Lamones, Jr., 43, and their 13-year-old daughter were all shot by a group of people Lamones said belong to a local gang.
“It’s just a situation that’s so unfortunate I don’t really know how to explain. I’m really lost for words because this could’ve been handled so different. We could’ve talked about it like grown-ups, Lamones said. Instead, it went to violence and my mom wound up dead. Everyone lose out – we lose because my mom is dead. Their family lose out because their person is going to prison.”
Updated: Apr 11 2021, 12:25 ET
A BOYFRIEND allegedly bit, beat and squeezed a boy, 2, to death after he became enraged after he urinated on the couch.
Alegray Damiah Jones, 30, who is in a relationship with the boy s mom, reportedly admitted to striking the child until he passed out on the night of April 8.
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Alegray Damiah Jones has been charged with manslaughterCredit: Polk County Jail
Jones has been charged with manslaughter over after the vicious attack, reports The Lakeland Ledger.
He reportedly told cops he yelled at the boy popped him on the hand and leg after he had urinated on the couch.
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