Marie E. Sobasky, a 54-year-old White female from Columbus, Georgia, died on May 21, 2015, in a case that appears in the public record not as a drawn-out homicide investigation but as a sudden and deeply tragic shooting. Online obituary records place her roots firmly in Columbus, where she was born on January 8, 1961, and describe her as a homemaker, wife, mother, and grandmother whose death sent her family toward a graveside service at Parkhill Cemetery just days later.
The picture that emerges from the available reporting is of a woman whose life was publicly remembered through family and funeral notices, even as the circumstances of her death carried a stark and unsettling finality.
The clearest publicly available account tied to the incident says Sobasky was killed by a gunshot on May 21, 2015, in Columbus after purchasing a firearm, with reporting summarized in later databases as a self-inflicted shooting in a parking lot. Gun Violence Archive’s incident entry, which cites contemporaneous local reporting, lists her as the sole victim and notes that she bought a gun and shot herself in the parking lot of a Money Mizer location. That account is consistent with the absence of later public reporting about an attack by another person, a fleeing assailant, or a broader criminal episode unfolding around her death.
Because the available online record points to suicide rather than a homicide committed by someone else, there do not appear to have been any arrests, named suspects, criminal charges, trials, or convictions connected to Marie E. Sobasky’s death in the sources I found. Columbus Police’s publicly posted unsolved homicide materials also do not surface this case as an open murder investigation, which further suggests that authorities did not publicly classify it as the kind of homicide case that would produce suspects or arrests. In the end, the online record tells a brief but somber story: a Columbus woman died suddenly on a May day in 2015, the circumstances were reported as self-inflicted, and the aftermath moved not into a courtroom, but into mourning.
