Juvenile's
Daughter Laid To Rest
(March 10th)
Gwinnett
County Sheriff's Deputy Joy Deleston and
her two daughters Micaiah, 11, and Jelani,
4, were laid to rest quietly Saturday
on her childhood home of James Island,
S.C., outside Charleston.
The burial was preceded by a spirited
"celebration of life" at First
Baptist Church on James Island. Dozens
of law enforcement officers from the Gwinnett
and Charleston area joined more than 500
guests for the three-hour service.
In open caskets, Deleston, 39, could be
seen wearing her deputy's uniform; the
girls wore pearls and matching pale pink
gowns of sheer organza.
Deleston was a 7-year veteran of the Gwinnett
Sheriff's Department.
Her only surviving child, 17-year-old
Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., is in custody
in DeKalb County jail, unable to attend
the funeral because he faces murder charges
in the family's shooting deaths. Police
still do not know the motive, nor whether
Deleston's service weapon was used in
the slayings March 28.
Jelani's father, the rap star Juvenile
whose real name is Terius Gray, did not
attend the service.
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