Reginald Dewayne Harris, 43, was a Black man whose story appears online in fragments that, taken together, trace a long and painful passage from violence to death. He was born on December 25, 1972, in Columbus, Georgia, to Marion Marshall Jones and the late Willie Harris Jr., and was known to friends and family as “OG.” By the time of his death, he was living in Columbus and working for Sol Loeb Moving and Storage Company.
The violence tied to his case began in Fort Mitchell, Alabama, on February 26, 2016, when he was shot, a date preserved in gun-violence records and memorial listings even though his life did not end that same day.
What followed was not an immediate funeral, but months of survival after the shooting. Online obituary and memorial records indicate that Harris ultimately died on September 15, 2016, at Midtown Medical Center in Columbus, and a Ledger-Enquirer headline preserved in multiple memorial references states that he died seven months after being shot in Fort Mitchell. That detail gives the case its tragic shape: a man wounded in late winter who carried those injuries into the fall, with his death later linked back to the shooting in Russell County. His visitation was held in Phenix City, and his funeral service followed in Columbus before his burial at Green Acres Cemetery, closing a chapter that had begun with gunfire months earlier.
As for the criminal side of the case, the online sources I located do not identify any named suspect, arrest, charge, trial, or conviction connected to the shooting of Reginald Harris. The public-facing memorial and incident records repeat the fact of the shooting and his later death, but they do not supply the next piece of the story—the person or people responsible, or whether anyone was ever brought into court over it. What remains online is therefore the outline of an unresolved loss: a Fort Mitchell shooting on February 26, 2016, a struggle that lasted for months, and the death of Reginald Harris in September 2016 without arrest information appearing in the sources found.
