The same day her son turned 1 year old, hundreds poured into a Woodstock funeral home on Thursday to mourn the young mother who police said may have been killed in front of her two children.
Milton police said Mr. Christopher Erdman, 25, shot Ms. Shannon Lawrence, the mother of his children, four times during a custody swap Sunday on Birmingham Highway.
Her family encouraged her to make the right decision, and in August she left the father of her children and moved in with her parents.
On Sunday, Ms. Lawrence drove to Jonesboro to give her children to their father.
But Mr. Erdman was not ready to let her go, and Ms. Lawrence detailed instances of being stalked and threatened, according to a Forsyth County Court document shared in one media report. She wrote she was afraid for herself and her family.
