Marching for change: Joining together to honor Commen Schuttz

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Household and mates are marching for change, making an attempt to verify the loss of life of an Augusta mother and enterprise proprietor shines a lightweight on an issue that lives within the shadows.

Deputies say Commen Schuttz’s husband killed her every week in the past after a sample of reported abuse that went largely unchecked by the justice system.

They got here collectively to honor Commen with a march and vigil.

Everybody knew Commen, and she or he made it a degree for everybody to know her. It’s now her legacy. The individuals who cherished her most are holding on and hoping her story offers individuals the braveness to talk out in opposition to home violence.

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Sounds of chanting echoed by downtown Augusta adopted by music and a poem.

“When she entered the room, you knew Commen was there,” mentioned James Dean. “Oh my gosh, she was miss diva of Augusta.”

She was additionally a pal and an advocate to so many. Even after her loss of life, she’s nonetheless serving to others.

Pat Moody mentioned: “Her story goes to unfold to lots of people, and hopefully, it can give them the braveness to talk up … to talk to their family members.”

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And most significantly save lives.

Dean mentioned: “If we will save one life, we did a very good job.”

On the entrance is the one who is aware of Commen essentially the most, her mother.

“I used to be the final person who she talked to. All I can do was attempt to get there. However I used to be too late,” mentioned Diane Rouse.

By that point, she was on the telephone together with her granddaughter.

“She mentioned, ‘I’m exterior. And I believe one thing goes to occur to mother.’ I mentioned ‘Bentlee, go to a neighbor’s home.’ I’m so grateful to that neighbor. It might have been her too. And however now we have her right here. However Commen shouldn’t be right here. She sacrificed her life for her daughter,” mentioned Rouse. “We actually do should cease it. We don’t want one other factor like this to occur in our neighborhood.”

A neighborhood giving again to the one who gave a lot.

Pat Moody mentioned: “She had a imaginative and prescient, and it was coming into bloom, however it’s going to proceed to flourish even together with her absence as a result of she’s right here in spirit.”

Everybody right here is aware of Commen, she isn’t right here bodily, however her affect lives on.

Bertha Lindsay can also be Commen’s pal. She mentioned, “Commen was a individuals individual. Commen was variety to individuals. Folks knew Commen. Commen made it a degree so that you can know her.”

Commen was planning to have a pop-up store throughout Masters week amongst different issues for the neighborhood.

The household remains to be discussing the place to go from right here in persevering with Commen’s legacy. Proper now, their prime precedence is her best legacy of all, her daughter Bentlee.

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