Briuna Hartry: 31-Year-Old Woman Shot Dead in Georgia Murder-Suicide
Briuna Hartry was 31, a mother already, and only weeks from meeting the daughter she had wanted for a long time. On Thursday she was surprised with a baby shower at work. By Friday morning , June 19, 2026, she was gone, along with the child she had been carrying.
Family and friends describe a woman who refused to let hardship flatten her. Her brother, Kentavious Anderson, said the world could be falling apart and she would still find a way to smile, to be playful, to lift the people around her. She would give the shirt off her back and then keep giving. She was, they said, a joyful and slightly goofy spirit who handled what came her way and still made room for other people’s joy.
She already had a young son. Relatives said she was a devoted mother, and that her brother had helped raise the boy. This time she was thrilled to be expecting a girl. They had a name for her: Haven Jabria. After the deaths, family members held a teddy bear that contained a recording of the baby’s heartbeat — the only remnant they had of the child they never got to meet.
Hartry worked at The Cook Building in Milledgeville. Colleagues noticed when she did not arrive on Friday. Officers were sent to a house on the 100 block of North Richmond Street after a welfare check.
Inside they found her and Jajuan Taylor, 33, both dead. Police said a preliminary investigation indicated Taylor killed Hartry and her unborn child, then took his own life. The couple was not married. Her son was not in the home. Autopsies were ordered at the GBI crime lab. The case remained under investigation.
Relatives later said Taylor had been in a severe mental-health crisis in the weeks before. They described Hartry trying to get him help — hospitals, police, whatever resources she could find — while still preparing for birth and trying not to leave him feeling abandoned. An aunt recalled telling her to put herself and the baby first. Hartry answered that she did not want him to think he was alone. The family believes the systems that were supposed to respond failed him, and that the cost was paid by Hartry, her daughter, and the child she already had.
Funeral services were held June 27 at Freedom Church in Milledgeville, with burial at Council Cemetery. The official notice is spare: born September 18, 1994; died June 19, 2026; survived by loving family and friends. The people who knew her fill in the rest — a woman who lit up rooms, loved hard, and was counting the days until she could introduce her son to a little sister.
What remains is a son without his mother, a family holding a heartbeat in a stuffed bear, and a community asked to notice crisis earlier and act on it.
The story is not only how they died. It is who she was while she lived: a mother, a sister, a coworker who got a surprise shower the day before everything ended, and a person her family still talks about in the present tense of memory — the one who would smile anyway.
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