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A mother’s quest to honor son’s memory

Two years after her son, TJ Floyd was brutally stabbed to death Debbie Floyd feels like she is finally turning a corner. “The Devil thought he was going to take me down because I had reached hundreds but now I am going after thousands,” Floyd said adding she recently realized her new mission, one she could carry forward to honor her murdered son’s memory. To understand Floyd’s future mission you need to understand the events that devastated her past. “You would have thought that when I walked out of the court room the other day I would have been relieved. I wasn’t I went into this deep dark hole…I wasn’t prepared for that,” she said. Floyd’s son was 19 when he was stabbed to death on Jan. 21, 2012. That day changed Floyd’s life forever. On April 4, Floyd and her family were in court as her son’s killer Travon Walthour, accepted a plea agreement on a manslaughter charge in Liberty County Superior Court. Walthour will have to spend at least 15 years in prison before he would be eligible...