Coroner IDs 2 women dead after shooting at Family Dollar store in Columbus

Authorities have identified the two women fatally shot Monday afternoon at a Columbus Family Dollar store.

Jasmine Trice, 30, was pronounced dead at the store at 2112 Floyd Road. Kiera Williams, 28, died at the hospital, said Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan.

Bryan said his office was notified around 4:20 p.m. Monday, that one person was dead and another was injured and en route to Piedmont Columbus Regional, where Williams died around 5 p.m.

Columbus police have not yet released any information on the double shooting, which Bryan said will mark the city’s 15th and 16th homicides so far this year.

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story reported the wrong day. The shooting happened Monday.

This story was originally published March 1, 2021 at 4:58 PM.

Tim Chitwood

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

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Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.