Karah Spencer Perkins Potter, a 23-year-old community advocate, is remembered by family and friends after her tragic death from gun violence in Jackson. Potter, who worked with local youths through her family’s nonprofit foundation, was killed while trying to mediate a conflict at a gas station, where an argument escalated into gunfire. Witnesses reported that her friend, Phillip Bullock, shot her, but he has not been charged with murder despite her family’s outrage.
Potter’s family, dedicated to uplifting the community through service, has now established the Sunshine Scholarship Fund in her honor to support students pursuing higher education. In moving tributes during her funeral service, relatives highlighted her caring spirit and dreams for a better Jackson, sparking hard questions about gun violence and safety in the very communities she sought to uplift.
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