Waiting For Justice

Palatka’s unsolved murders weigh on those left behind

 

  • Casmira Harrison/Palatka Daily News Anterio Smith rubs some dirt off a photo of his little brother and his brother’s children that adorns David Marcus Givens’ grave. Smith, who works in the medical examiner's office that oversees Putnam County deaths, wants his brother’s killers brought to justice and to see fewer familiar faces in the morgue.
    Casmira Harrison/Palatka Daily News Anterio Smith rubs some dirt off a photo of his little brother and his brother’s children that adorns David Marcus Givens’ grave. Smith, who works in the medical examiner's office that oversees Putnam County deaths, wants his brother’s killers brought to justice and to see fewer familiar faces in the morgue.
Men with guns barged into David Givens’ home July 21, 2015. “Give me all your money!” the masked intruders demanded, a Palatka Police Department report states. While another individual in Givens’…

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