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On the morning of January 16, 2017, in Columbus, Georgia, 17-year-old Destiny Nelson was in her apartment at the Bull Creek Apartment complex when an unknown individual knocked on her door. When the door remained closed, multiple gunshots were fired through it, striking and killing the high school honors student. Nelson was a promising eleventh-grader at the Early College Academy, where she was dually enrolled at Columbus State University. She was the vice president of her junior class and was a ...Read More

Victim Details

Destiny Nelson

Female

Black / African American

Columbus

GA

2017-01-16

17

Destiny

Nelson

04/25/2026