Company leaves plaque for Rossman Dairy Road victims
Published 10:32 am Tuesday, July 5, 2016
- A plaque listing the names of five shooting victims was left at 505 Rossman Dairy Road after Smith Land Clearing Co. removed the debris of the burned house where their bodies were found. Other memorials have been left by people who knew the victims.
MOULTRIE, Ga. — A memorial has been placed at 505 Rossman Dairy Road for the five victims who died there May 15.
The bodies of Jonathan Garrett Edwards Jr., Ramsey Jones Pidcock, and Aaron Reid Williams, all 21; 22-year-old Jordan Shane Croft, and Alicia Brooke Norman, 20, were found following a fire at the residence. Autopsies revealed that all five had been shot.
Jeffrey Alan Peacock, 24, of Norman Park, was later charged with five counts of felony murder and one count of arson.
Smith Land Service began cleaning up the debris on the property on Tuesday, June 28, and finished on Thursday, June 30, but wanted to leave a little something behind. A white cross with a plaque attached, listing the names of the five young victims, was placed near a shady tree to the right of the property.
“We wanted to show that Smith Land Service didn’t forget,” said Wes Smith, owner of the company, “and that we didn’t just come here and clean everything and not remember what happened. We wanted to leave a place to remember them by.”
Smith says that Smith Land Service dedicated the memorial due to the number of people who have stopped by to mourn and to bring a little comfort to the community.
