On the morning of March 6, 1915, the peaceful atmosphere of downtown Brunswick, Georgia, was shattered in a mere ten minutes of shocking violence. A 59-year-old White male named George W. Asbell, a former police officer and streetcar conductor, was one of five people who lost their lives in a shooting rampage.
The perpetrator, identified as Monroe Phillips, embarked on his deadly path with a double-barrel shotgun. The motive for the initial attack appeared to be a grudge against Judge Har
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