“He just did the best he could,” said Raasha Thompson, the mother of three of Morrison’s children. “He worked as hard as he could. He did what he could for his kids. He made sure he saw them. He made sure he was in their lives and that he got to know who they were.”- Murder of Laken Riley (Wikipedia)
On February 22, 2024, Laken Riley, an American 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, was kidnapped and murdered while she was jogging at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. Her body was found near a lake of a wooded area at UGA; her death was caused by blunt force trauma. The police described Riley’s killing as a “crime of opportunity”.