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TexasTowelie

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Thu Aug 22, 2019, 04:25 PM Aug 2019

'Code of the street.' Macon gang war leaves 3 dead, 6 jailed in tangled web of bloodshed

In early September 2013, Bridgette Moore Flowers posted a message to her sons on Facebook.

“I would like to wish my twins boy (sic) Jashon Jackson and Jamon Jackson a very Happy 13th Birthday,” the greeting began, “hope your day be special.”

About six months later, Bridgette Flowers, who managed a Pizza Hut in downtown Macon, was dead.

She was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Jasento Flowers. The deadly attack rattled Macon’s east side. Especially the Fort Hill neighborhood in the blocks surrounding historic Fort Hawkins where the shooting happened the night of Feb. 22, 2014.

Read more: https://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article233019212.html

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