L. C. Padgett, a former police officer from Brunswick, Georgia, was tragically killed on March 6, 1915, during a violent rampage by Monroe Phillips. Padgett, who had left law enforcement to drive a streetcar, was one of several victims in this mass shooting incident. Phillips, a 50-year-old sawmill owner and lumber businessman, had become despondent over a failed lumber deal and went on a shooting spree in downtown Brunswick. The incident occurred at the Dunwoody building at the intersection of
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