Augusta, GA
Murder trial starts in slaying of Columbia County toddler
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COLUMBIA COUNTY (WRDW/WAGT) – There are new developments within the 2019 homicide of a Columbia County toddler.
Lincoln DaVitte died in Could of 2019, simply shy of his second birthday. On Tuesday, Charles Sconyers, his mom’s boyfriend, and Augusta firefighter was again in courtroom going through expenses in his dying.
We have been within the courtroom. It was an extended day of witnesses describing their expertise of the tragic day of his dying.
We heard from lecturers at his daycare, first responders to the scene, and several other medical doctors, together with neurosurgeons and pediatric surgeons.
The most important takeaway from those that cared for DaVitte, the accidents he sustained aren’t in step with what Sconyers mentioned occurred.
“I haven’t seen this damage from a working or a standing little one,” mentioned Dr. Walker Pipkin, pediatric surgeon, CHOG.
The medical doctors say they usually see related accidents from individuals falling from a number of tales of a constructing or being ejected throughout a automobile crash.
Dr. Kevin Alen mentioned: “The fracture began within the again and really had two traces that got here ahead, that implies there was much more drive than the bottom degree fall.”
EARLIER COVERAGE:
The primary responders to the scene have been firefighters–shortly after Gold Cross arrived. Sconyers was an worker of Gold Cross, and his supervisor advised him he might go along with DaVitte and assist administer care.
However not everybody felt snug with him being there.
Kristi Marsh, Gold Cross, paramedic mentioned: “He gave the impression to be very distraught and saved saying ‘if one thing occurs to him, that is all my fault.’ ‘Please don’t let something occur to him.’ That was repeated the entire option to the hospital. I acquired a sense that he was not as involved with affected person care as he was the outcomes of the kid.”
Marsh was one of many paramedics serving to stabilize DaVitte. She says she’s by no means seen an damage like this from a ground-level fall.
One of many closing witnesses referred to as to the stand was a health care provider specializing in abuse. He says a number of of DaVitte’s accidents indicated potential abuse.
A whole lot of the medical doctors findings have been from discovering hemorrhages behind each of his eyes and different bruises on his ears and the remainder of his physique. That is all from the prosecution’s aspect. We’ll hear from Sconyers and his protection staff within the coming days.
This case isn’t so simple as – who may very well be chargeable for Lincoln’s dying?
Our I-Group has uncovered one other essential query – Who might have stopped it? Our I-Group needed to struggle to be in one other courtroom listening to for that. That listening to had nothing to do with Charles Sconyers.
It was between Lincoln’s mom and DFCS. DFCS fought to maintain us out of it, so our legal professional and information director went to courtroom to ask a choose to allow us to in.
We needed to seek out out whether or not DFCS missed or ignored doable warning indicators of abuse earlier than Lincoln’s dying, and a choose sided with us.
In 2019, we realized DFCS had a file of Lincoln having a black eye – not as soon as – however twice. A caseworker concluded there have been no security considerations and closed the case. 6 weeks later, Lincoln died.
Our I-Group investigation additionally uncovered Lincoln’s daycare lecturers say they noticed him with black eyes – a busted mouth – pinch marks, and handprints.
They advised us they shared this with their daycare director – and after they say nothing was accomplished – they referred to as DFCS.
Our I-Group additionally questioned the director of DFCS on the time – Tom Rawlings – in regards to the variety of youngsters dying after DFCS was alerted. We reported ‘abuse or neglect contributed to the deaths of at the very least 35 youngsters throughout the state of Georgia in 2018.’ All had a historical past of DFCS after they died.
None of this may convey Lincoln again – or these different 35 youngsters again, however it’s essential to recollect – in hopes it helps save youngsters at risk.
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Deadly accident shuts down lanes on Deans Bridge Road
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a car crash on Deans Bridge Road on Saturday night, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Richmond County dispatchers said the call came in at 9:01 p.m. of a single-car accident with five passengers.
The driver was transported to a local hospital and later died due to their injuries, according to authorities.
The condition of the other passengers remains unknown.
The southbound lanes were shut down as of 10:15 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route.
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Augusta, GA
The Dawg Days of summer hit the Junior Players with two (maybe) future UGA players leading
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Mason Howell birdies his last two holes, Hamilton Coleman posts the tournament’s low score on their way to the final group for Sunday’s final round at Players Stadium Course.
TPC Sawgrass, AJGA host the Junior Players Championship for the 18th year
The 18th Junior Players Championship is at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. It has become a Labor Day Weekend tradition on the First Coast.
One of the players in the final threesome of the 18th Junior Players Championship on Sunday has already decided to play golf at the University of Georgia — despite having two more years until his high school class graduates.
The other, with the same amount of time left in junior golf, still has an open mind. But he’d be bucking family tradition if he didn’t become a Bulldog.
Either way, they have more immediate issues at hand: battling it out in the final threesome in the final round of the Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., birdied the hardest par-3 and the hardest par-5 holes on the course to polish off a 70 on Saturday, and at 5-under-par 139 has a one-shot lead over Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., (68, the tournament’s low round for the first two days), who birdied No. 17 and then made a gutsy par at the last to finish at 4-under.
Logan Reilly of Lovettsville, Va. (72), who held a share of the 18-hole lead, is in third at 3-under, Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas (72) is fourth at 2-under and Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif. (71) is fifth at 1-under.
They are the only players who have broken par for the first 36 holes.
Reilly earned his spot in the final three some when he rallied from a stretch of three bogeys in four holes to birdie Nos. 8 and 9.
First Coast players lagging behind
After Miles Russell became the first resident of the First Coast to win the Junior Players last year — with Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach finishing second and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island in a tie for sixth — it will take an extraordinary final round for any of them to reach the top 10, much less contend.
Junior Players leaderboard
Junior Players final-round groups, tee times
Dunham (75) and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (73) are tied for 18th at 3-over. Dunham made only one birdie but it was at his final hole, the par-5 ninth.
Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville had a wild ride over the Stadium Course, signing for a card that contained four pars, seven birdies, five bogeys and two double bogeys. It added up to a 74 and he’s tied for 31st at 5-over.
Russell got his score to even par through 13 holes and was only four off the lead at the time. But he bogeyed four of his last five holes and shot 76. He’s tied for 34th at 6-under with Mawhinney (77).
Ambrose Kinnare of St. Augustine (83) is tied for 68th at 15-over.
Junior Players leaders putt, scramble well
Both of the leaders said the course takes a mental toll on players, especially off the tee.
“The greens are in really good shape but you have to play really smart to get there,” said Howell, who hasn’t made a college decision yet but is from a Bulldog family — both his parents graduated from UGA. “If you have one lapse you’re in trouble. You can’t just walk up to a tee and whack at it.”
Coleman agreed with the sight lines off the Stadium Course tees.
“They are just so demanding,” he said. “There is not a breather hole off the tee. Every tee shot, you’re kind of stressing. Once you’re in the fairway and in the right position, you can kind of attack.”
Howell, Coleman get hot at different times
Howell is 14th on the AJGA Rolex Rankings and has five top-10 finishes this year in AGJA or national junior events, including a tie for fifth in the Western Junior.
He was 1-over for his first 10 holes after starting his round at the par-4 10th, then dropped birdie putts of 15 feet at No. 2 and 20 feet at No. 5. Howell capped his day when he drilled a 4-iron from 211 yards out to set up a 35-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth, then pitched onto the green of the par-5 ninth hole in three, and made a 3-footer.
Coleman, who verbally committed to Georgia last week, is 91st on the Rolex Rankings. He bounced back from a bogey at No. 2 with short birdie putts at Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 9, a stretch highlighted by a 6-iron against the wind from 176 yards out to within inches of the hole at the seventh.
Coleman birdied the 13th hole on a 15-foot putt at No. 13 and then chipped in from the right-front of the 14th green for birdie, negotiating a difficult angle to the front-left pin.
He almost holed out another short-game shot at the last. Coleman pushed his drive right and had to punch out from the trees. The ball rolled onto and over the green, settling into the left bunker. His sand shot tickled the edge of the hole before rolling 8 feet away, but he made the comebacker for par.
“I scrambled well, definitely,” Coleman said. “My irons have been really solid all week. I just need to tighten up the driver a little bit tomorrow.”
Howell, Coleman have played often
As South Georgia residents, Howell and Coleman know each other well and have played numerous times with and against each other and paired up for a practice round earlier in the week.
“He’s always fun to play with,” Coleman said. “Every time we play together we have fun.”
They also have a good track record on the First Coast. Howell is in his first Junior Players but he won the Billy Horschel Junior Championship on Oct. 5, 2023. Coleman tied for 18th in last year’s Junior Players and tied for third in the Horschel Junior Championship (which is played under a Stableford format), one point out of a playoff between Howell and Clark Van Gaalen.
Augusta, GA
THE SCORE: Behind the Scenes with the Silver Bluff band
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