Damaris Hawes

In the late autumn of 2014, the life of 37-year-old Damaris Rainwater Hawes was tragically cut short in Atlanta, Georgia. A Black female and a mother to five children, her body was discovered on the morning of November 14, 2014. She was found inside a sleeping bag on the first level of a parking garage located at Kimball Way and Decatur Street, near the campus of Georgia State University. An autopsy would later confirm that Hawes died from blunt force trauma to her head, indicating a violent and ...