Augusta, Ga.-They may be just faces, but these individuals are someone’s mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife, child, or other loved one… and they were murdered. Dr. Kimberly Davies, chair of Augusta State University’s Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Social Work, has her students putting up the visual display of the 16,929 people murdered during 2007 in the United States in the atrium of Allgood Hall on Monday, June 1, beginning at noon.

She says, “Students in the Summer 2009 Sociology of Murder classes put these pictures here to encourage all of us to think about the tremendous number of people who die at the hands of other people each year in the United States.  We want you to think beyond the rates or the ideas that murder is increasing or decreasing and look at these faces and think about all the wasted lives and all the people who continue to suffer because they have lost family members and friends to senseless violence.”

For more information, contact Danielle Harris, media relations specialist, in ASU’s Office of Public Relations and Publications at 706-737-1876.
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