2020 shooting that killed a 70-year-old grandmother still unsolved
Despite identifying suspects, Shawanda Lamones said the Lakeland Police Department has yet to arrest those responsible her mother's death.
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Despite identifying suspects, Shawanda Lamones said the Lakeland Police Department has yet to arrest those responsible her mother's death.
The last two years have seemed like an eternity for the Lamones' family. They were the target of a shooting back on Christmas Eve in 2020, and it took the life of one family member and injured three others.
A Lakeland family is still calling for arrests after a 2020 shooting left a 70-year-old grandmother dead and several others injured.
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...