Two years ago Saturday, Loganville found itself in the news for all the wrong reasons.
A trailer park just outside the city limits was the scene of what is believed to be the worst mass killing in the history of Gwinnett County. Isabel Garduno Martinez fatally stabbed her husband and four of their children, all of them 10 and younger.
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