Names released for 2 people slain in Washington County

SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The coroner has launched the names of two individuals who have been fatally shot over the weekend at a big get together in Washington County.

William Lowery, 17, of Louisville, and Christopher Dunn, 30, of Wrightsville, have been shot Sunday at a “Freaknik”-themed get together that drew about 1,000 folks to the Larry Mitchell Ball Park, 359 Suburban Drive.

After being shot, they have been taken to an emergency room and later succumbed to their accidents, deputies reported.

The taking pictures is believed to be the results of an altercation between visitors on the occasion, Sheriff Joel Cochran mentioned.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace and Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating the taking pictures. Nobody in custody but however Cochran mentioned there are some folks of curiosity, and he anticipates making arrests within the close to future.

Deputies urge anybody with data to name the Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace at 478-552-0911 and or the GBI at 478-374-6988.

TACKLING LOCAL CRIME:

“We’d like your assist to help us in bringing the individual or individual(s) answerable for this taking pictures to justice,” the sheriff’s company mentioned in a press release. “Be part of us in praying for these households which might be affected by this mindless act of violence.”

The incident comes as an uptick in violent crimes has left a path of accidents and deaths throughout the CSRA in latest weeks. Though a lot of the crime has been centered in Richmond and Aiken counties, smaller communities haven’t been immune.

Lethal crimes since April 14 within the CSRA embrace:

• On Might 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.
• On Might 3, Charles L. Bradley, 49, of Aiken, was shot lifeless whereas in a automotive at Hampton Avenue and Meeting Road. That taking pictures was amongst a string of them that evening in Aiken, though the opposite shootings didn’t harm anybody.
• 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 Road in Augusta. Dunn suffered at the least one gunshot wound and died on the scene.
• On April 19, Brittany Dougherty was discovered slain outdoors a vacant house within the 1500 block of Conklin Lane. Her loss of life was thought of suspicious from the beginning, however inside hours the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace dominated her loss of life a murder.
• On April 18, Johnnie Coleman was discovered shot lifeless within the 1900 block of Outdated Savannah Highway. Authorities launched a photograph of a automotive 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 Ok at 1739 Walton Method in Augusta. Suspect Yelena Buckner, 33, of Augusta, was later discovered and arrested on costs of homicide and possession of a firearm through the fee of against the law, 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 Heart.
• Sandersville police discovered the physique of a person on April 16 inside a house on Gwendolyn Road whereas responding to a report of a home dispute on the deal with. 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 Court docket. He was pronounced lifeless at 11:23 p.m.

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