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On a cold Saturday morning in January, Southwest Center Mall looked much like it has over the past decade. The shopping center’s vast parking lots were mostly empty, as were many of the storefronts inside. Within a few months, even Macy’s, an anchor tenant, would be closing. Like many of the shopping malls that sprouted up across America in the 1970s and 1980s, Southwest Center Mall, which opened under the name Red Bird Mall in 1975 at the intersection of Interstate 20 and U.S. 67, once was a symbol of a promising economic future. But on that morning this past January, there was something eerie about the mall’s emptiness, like a scene out of a 1980s horror film.
People who knew Rosalyn Howard were praising her dedication to her church and love of life on Monday, even as more details emerged about her Saturday afternoon stabbing death.
Police were dispatched to Howardâs home at 3516 Rosemont Ave. about 5:24 p.m., and on arrival found that Howard had been stabbed. Emergency medical workers said Howard died at her home. She was 68 and lived alone.
Howardâs son, Jacob Christian Jones, 33, was arrested in Pineville outside Charlotte early Sunday morning. Jones has been charged with murder and armed robbery in the death of Howard in Winston-Salem.
Howard is the aunt of former Wake Forest University basketball player Josh Howard, who played professionally for the Dallas Mavericks and who is now head coach at University of North Texas Dallas. Rosalyn Howard is also connected through marriage to Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough.