AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Mates say an area mother was so filled with grace and dedication that you simply’d by no means know the turmoil of her dwelling life – home violence, courtroom orders, and fights.

The turmoil finally took her life, in response to authorities.

Deputies say Commen Gunn, 48, was shot late Wednesday within the 200 block of Brandywine Place by her husband, Shawn Gunn. He’s within the hospital now after a shootout with deputies, authorities say.

Regulation enforcement reviews present there have been years of conflicts between the couple.

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She’d sought assist earlier than by Secure Properties and had filed non permanent restraining orders towards her husband, who had a historical past of arrests.

Mates say they’re devastated.

“I used to be simply devastated as a result of in case you knew Commen or noticed her round, you’d simply by no means suppose that she was going by all of that, you already know, and he or she was nonetheless urgent ahead,” mentioned her good friend Samantha Avera. “It was simply very heartbreaking. I imply, it simply actually shook me up all day. It actually did.”

That speaks lots about her perseverance and her character, Avera mentioned.

There might have been hints right here and there.

“Defending my peace is my primary precedence,” Commen Gunn mentioned in her final Fb publish, only a few hours earlier than she was killed.

She was somebody who gave again to the neighborhood by organizing the Augusta Legends Awards, an all-white celebration at Bentlee’s Closet, the Augusta Grammy’s, and a pop-up store for the Masters.

She was an instance that when folks take day out of their day to create one thing for the neighborhood they dwell in, “which means they’re going above and past them simply working and being profitable,” mentioned Ronic West of the Augusta Black Chamber of Commerce.

“It’s an enormous loss whenever you lose anyone like that in the neighborhood,” West mentioned.

There have been flowers in her honor Thursday exterior Bentlee’s Closet, the Augusta kids’s boutique she named after her daughter so youngsters may gown up affordably.

It wasn’t simply her philanthropy but additionally her persona that made a distinction on the earth.

“She was simply all the time supportive,” Avera mentioned. “She simply was genuinely a loving particular person. In the event you met her, you felt like you may have all the time recognized her endlessly.”

West mentioned: “She’s all the time very bubbly … a lightweight. Like each time you’ve seen her, you all the time knew she was going to present you a smile. It’s going to be laborious to enter rooms and never see her there.”

She was somebody with a “massive persona,” Avera mentioned – and a giant coronary heart to go together with that.

“She was daring,” Avera mentioned. “When she thought it, she was going to say it. However she all the time dealt with you with love.”

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And she or he was all the time there for her daughter.

“She was simply so loving, so supportive. She was her daughter’s largest advocate,” Avera mentioned. “Once I take into consideration a mother-daughter relationship, they’re the primary ones that come to thoughts as a result of all the pieces she did was about, you already know: establishing some kind of basis for her daughter. She was simply all about that.”

Both approach, her loss of life is a loss not simply to her daughter however to many, her pals mentioned.

“It’s an ideal loss to the neighborhood,” Averea mentioned. “She’s such a lightweight to the world.”

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