Grandparents of homicide victim say he was trying to get himself straightened out
The grandfather of a 21-year-old Columbus man found shot to death Sunday morning said Jakorbin King was “trying to get himself straightened out.”
“I can’t say he was an angel, because I don’t believe in telling unnecessary lies, but he went to work and started back in school,” Grover King said. “He was dedicated to work and school. He was trying hard.”
Authorities were called at 6:58 a.m. to an apartment complex at 1010 33rd St., Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan said. Jakorbin King, a Waffle House employee, was found inside an apartment and was pronounced dead of multiple gunshot wounds at 7:50 a.m., Bryan said. The body will be sent to Atlanta for an autopsy.
King’s grandmother, Dell King, said Jakorbin's mother is getting treatment in a nursing home. She said at one time her grandson attended Brookstone School.
She said she had last talked to Jakorbin on Thursday and he was not a "child who got in trouble."
“It was tragic, just unbelievable,” Dell King said of her grandson's death.
Larry Gierer: 706-571-8581, @lagierer
This story was originally published April 30, 2017 at 12:31 PM with the headline "Grandparents of homicide victim say he was trying to get himself straightened out."