Mississippi Teen, Whose Boyfriend Was Fatally Shot Weeks Before, Is Gunned Down Hours After HS Graduation
The family and friends of Kennedy Hobbs, an 18-year-old from Jackson, Mississippi, are demanding answers after she was gunned down hours after her high school graduation.
It’s reported that not long after receiving her diploma from Murrah High School last Tuesday (June 1), Hobbs and her friends drove out to the gravesite of her boyfriend Jaquan Williams, who she’d dated for over two years and who’d been fatally shot eight weeks earlier. On April 8, after getting into an altercation in a parking lot at a local convenience store, Williams tried to drive away before things escalated, but the assailant shot him multiple times through the drivers’ side window.
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Weeks later, with Williams on her mind post-graduation, Hobbs visited his grave and left her sash with him, as a way of dedicating her milestone to her lost love. Williams’ mother, Tammara Carr, says, “He always motivated her. So I think she felt in a way like she was [graduating] for him. She really struggled after his death, and this was important for her.” Hours after leaving the graveyard, Hobbs was shot and killed herself in an apparently unrelated yet eerily similar murder at a local gas station. In both cases, authorities are still investigating with no one coming forward as a witness.
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