3 sought for questioning about shooting outside downtown bar

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Authorities need to query three males in reference to a taking pictures incident final month in entrance of a downtown Augusta bar.

The taking pictures occurred round 3 a.m. April 23 at Broad Avenue and eleventh Avenue.

The sufferer stated she was sitting in her automobile in entrance of the bar when she heard a number of gunshots. She rapidly leaned towards her passenger window and ducked right down to keep away from being shot. Two bullets entered her automobile by means of the windshield and driver’s facet window, in line with deputies.

The sufferer stated she rapidly sped off to get away from the gunfire, however was handled for a reduce to her left wrist from damaged glass.

Deputies discovered bullet holes within the sufferer’s automobile in addition to a glass roll-up door of the Mellow Mushroom restaurant and the hood of a close-by car.

Deputies are search for details about these three males:

Anybody with details about the lads is urged to contact Investigator Stephen Brown at 706-821-4848 or any on-duty investigator on the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace, 706-821-1020 or 706-821-1080.

The taking pictures got here throughout an uptick in crime throughout the CSRA – one which’s induced a number of accidents and deaths. Among the crimes, just like the one outdoors Backyard Metropolis Social, have concerned victims in automobiles, together with:

• On Wednesday, a taking pictures injured a driver within the 1800 block of Jefferson Davis Freeway in Aiken County. The driving force was in a position to name 911 and report the incident. She was taken to an Augusta hospital
• On Could 3, Charles L. Bradley, 49, of Aiken, was shot useless whereas in a automobile at Hampton Avenue and Meeting Avenue. That taking pictures was amongst a string of them that night time in Aiken, though the opposite shootings didn’t damage anybody.
• On April 29, gunfire broke out throughout a street rage incident in North Augusta on Knox Avenue close to Martintown Highway. One other driver started yelling on the sufferer and brandished a handgun, taking pictures shot one time into the sufferer’s car. The sufferer suffered a minor reduce to his proper ear.

TACKLING LOCAL CRIME:

Along with the Could 3 taking pictures, different lethal crimes within the CSRA since April 14 embody:

• On Could 7, the physique of Joseph McKinnon, 60, was discovered at 102 Tanglewood Drive in Trenton. Authorities decided he’d died of a coronary heart assault after strangling and burying his girlfriend, Patricia Dent, 65, within the yard.
• Taking pictures simply earlier than 7:30 p.m. on April 23 claimed the lifetime of Rodriquez Dunn, 31, on the Olmstead Properties within the 2100 block of B Avenue in Augusta. Dunn suffered a minimum of one gunshot wound and died on the scene.
• On April 19, Brittany Dougherty was discovered slain outdoors a vacant dwelling within the 1500 block of Conklin Lane. Her demise was thought of suspicious from the beginning, however inside hours the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace dominated her demise a murder.
• On April 18, Johnnie Coleman was discovered shot useless within the 1900 block of Previous Savannah Highway. Authorities launched a photograph of a automobile suspected to have been linked to that slaying. Kelvin Lewis, 33, has been arrested as a suspect within the murders of Coleman and Dougherty.
• Jenefer Holt Herron, 52, of Augusta, died late April 18 after being shot throughout an argument outdoors the Circle Okay at 1739 Walton Method in Augusta. Suspect Yelena Buckner, 33, of Augusta, was later discovered and arrested on prices of homicide and possession of a firearm throughout the fee of a criminal offense, deputies reported.
• JaJuan Russell, 21, of Augusta, was fatally shot early April 17 within the 3700 block of Oslo Highway in Augusta. Russell was taken to Augusta College Medical Middle.
• Sandersville police discovered the physique of a person on April 16 inside a house on Gwendolyn Avenue whereas responding to a report of a home dispute on the tackle. Santavious Louis Roberts, 35, of Sandersville, was arrested.
• Brandon Peebles, 24, of Girard, was shot round 10:45 p.m. on April 14 within the 2300 block of Prague Courtroom. He was pronounced useless at 11:23 p.m.

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