In the late summer of 2016, a tragedy unfolded in a Stockbridge, Georgia motel room that cut short the life of Elimisha Maryetta Gates, a 40-year-old African American woman. On August 23rd, police were dispatched to the Express Inn & Suites on West Highway 138 after receiving a call about a person down. Inside one of the rooms, they made a grim discovery; Gates was deceased, having been shot in the back of the head as she slept. The brutal nature of the act sent ripples of shock through the comm
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