The family and friends of the late Tausha Pouncy released balloons at a vigil for her and other shooting victims on Tuesday.
Photos by Jacqueline Hough
Family, friends of Tausha Pouncy hold vigil, press conference near shooting site
The family and friends of the late Tausha Pouncy want justice for her.
A candlelight vigil and press conference was held a few yards from where Pouncy and three others were shot on July 24.
The Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office responded to The Spot nightclub around 2:35 a.m. on July 24 about a shooting incident. Four victims sustained injuries from gunshots, and all four were taken by personal vehicles to surrounding hospitals.
Pouncy later died as result of injuries. Five arrests have been made.
Her friend, Mikka Wilson, spoke on behalf of Pouncy’s mother Tonya Ingram.
Wilson said it will be one month on Thursday since they lost Pouncy, who was nicknamed “Fatty.”
“We are out here today for justice,” Wilson said. “It has been too long.”
Wilson said Pouncy was like her big sister and another shooting victim, Brent McMillan (her first cousin), is like a brother to her.
Wilson was there when the shooting incident took place. She got choked up as she talked about seeing everything from their being shot to the victims being rushed to the hospital.
“Everything is playing in the back of my mind like a broken record and to know that the murderers are still out and running around and our families are locked up and her family is suffering because they can’t get a peace of mind,” she said. “It’s just disgusting to me.”
According to Wilson, the other group of people involved are not in jail.
“They are out and about running around free with no care in the world,” she said.
Wilson emphasized the purpose of Tuesday was to stand up for justice.
“It is just not for Brent and Fatty but for anybody,” she said. “There’s too much gun violence. The gun violence needs to stop. The police need to do better as a whole. Everybody just needs to come together. As long as we can come together, we can get justice.”
She said Pouncy’s family and others want to see the establishment closed. Pouncy, 28, was married with three children.
Jack Logan, founder of Put Down the Guns Now, who helped to organize the event.
“We stand against gun violence,” stated Logan. “A young mother was murdered. And knowing this, they (the club owners) opened up the very next day.”
Logan wanted to make sure that all clubs in the Pee Dee are in compliance with the law. Logan plans to go before the members of the Marlboro County Council in September.
“The question that I am going to ask them is ‘Why do you allow that club to be open,’” he said.
Logan added some arrests have not been made and it is a slap in the face to the family and the public.