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.
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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.”