Augusta, GA
1 arrested, another sought in Augusta murder of Wrens 16-year-old
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An 18-year-old has been arrested in connection to a deadly July shooting.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office says Malcolm Bryant was arrested on Monday in the death of 16-year-old Sadiq Brown of Wrens.
The Richmond County Coroner’s Office said the shooting took place in the parking lot of 2622 Peach Orchard Road on July 5.
The coroner said Brown was shot at least one time and taken to Piedmont Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m.
At 10:55 p.m., the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office responded to a local hospital about a male subject who had been shot.
Upon arrival, deputies were informed that the male subject had been transported by car to the hospital with at least one gunshot wound.
Bryant is charged with murder and possession of a firearm or knife during a crime, according to the sheriff’s office.
Also in July, Richmond County deputies were looking for 18-year-old Kieran Darnell Walters. Walters is wanted for murder in reference to the shooting that killed Brown.
According to deputies, Walters is known to frequent the Harrisburg Neighborhood and is to be considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information concerning Walters is encouraged to contact Inv. Tyler Steerman or any Violent Crimes Investigator with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office at 706-821-1026 or 706-821-1020.

The shooting comes amid an outbreak of violent crime that’s killed a little over 170 people across the CSRA since April 2022. Communities large and small have been affected, but as the largest city in the region, Augusta has been hit especially hard.
Authorities have blamed much of the problem on gangs, and many of the victims and suspects have been young men, like Brown.
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Georgia governor candidate Olu Brown campaigns in Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Democratic candidate for Georgia governor Olu Brown visited Augusta on Friday evening, stopping near the Sand Hills Community Center as early voting continues.
Brown is one of six candidates in the Democratic primary.
Campaign priorities
Brown said his vision as governor would focus on three main areas.
“One, it’s affordability around health care and making sure we expand Medicaid and expand Peach Care and make sure we continue to make our rural health care systems healthy and vital,” Brown said. “Number two, we’ve got to address education in all of Georgia, making sure every kid in Georgia gets an excellent education, and we’re paying our teachers more. And number 3, we’re protecting the rights of all women. Folks in the Gold Dome shouldn’t be making decisions about their bodies or the choices that they make.”
Brown is running against Amanda Duffy, Derrick Jackson, Geoff Duncan, Jason Esteves, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mike Thurmond.
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Augusta Prep student arrested over picture of LEGO gun, threat he called a joke
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Augusta Prep student was arrested on a charge of terroristic threats over a picture of a LEGO gun he posted on social media.
It happened Wednesday, according to an incident report from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.
Eric Hedinger, the principal of Augusta Preparatory Day School, told deputies a student had uploaded a picture to Snapchat of a “pistol” with the caption “shooting up the school so I don`t have to take the stats exam tomorrow. Don`t come yall!”
The principal said he spoke to the student and his father about the photo.
The principal also provided deputies with the student’s address in Grovetown.
A deputy went there and was told by the student that the “pistol” was a LEGO set that he had built.

He also said the comment he made was supposed to be a joke because he was not looking forward to taking his Advanced Placement statistics test this week.
The student showed the deputy the box that the LEGO set came in, and how the set was already disassembled.
The deputy also looked in the boy’s room to make sure he was not in possession of any weapons.
The mother advised that there was one firearm in the residence but it was locked up.

The deputy contacted Judge Leslie Morgan and she issued a warrant for terroristic threats.
The student, age 18, was taken into custody and transported to the Columbia County Detention Center.
News 12 is not reporting his name or publishing his photo since the LEGO gun could not have actually harmed anyone.
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