One injured after Greene Street shooting in Augusta

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Amid a surge in shootings in Augusta – a number of of them lethal – up to now week, deputies responded to extra gunfire Wednesday night time.

Richmond County deputies responded to Paul’s Grocery store, #2 Greene Road, in reference to a capturing. On the scene, they positioned a male sufferer who was shot within the leg.

Based on officers, the sufferer reported that he was outdoors the shop when an unknown male started capturing at him and fled the scene.

Dispatchers say the reviews began coming in at 7:08 p.m. The sufferer was transported to Augusta College Medical Heart.

This investigation is ongoing.

It’s the second night time in a row deputies have scrambled in response to gunfire. On Tuesday night time, somebody shot up a Chevron station at 202 East Boundary.

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Deputies say they discovered the shop constructing had been struck a number of instances by gunfire. Home windows have been damaged however nobody was harm.

The gunfire comes throughout against the law wave that’s included six homicides throughout the CSRA since Thursday, no less than 4 of them on account of shootings in Augusta.

The incidents have Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree saying decisive steps are being taken to finish the violence.

Since final Thursday:

• A lifeless feminine was discovered simply earlier than midday Tuesday outdoors a vacant house within the 1500 block of Conklin Lane. The dying was thought-about suspicious from the beginning, however the coroner dominated Tuesday that the dying was the results of a murder. The sufferer was recognized Wednesday as Brittany Kristina Dougherty, 29, of Augusta,
• Jenefer Holt Herron, 52, of Augusta, died late Monday after being shot throughout an argument outdoors the Circle Ok at 1739 Walton Manner . The shooter fled in a grey sport utility car, however suspect Yelena Buckner, 33, of Augusta, was later discovered and arrested on fees of homicide and possession of a firearm through the fee of against the law, deputies reported.
• At 7:23 a.m. Monday, deputies have been referred to as to the 1900 block of Outdated Savannah Highway, the place a passing motorist discovered Johnnie Coleman, 72, of Augusta, who’d been shot lifeless.
• JaJuan Russell, 21, of the 700 block of East Chapman Road, was fatally shot early Sunday within the 3700 block of Oslo Highway. Russell was taken to Augusta College Medical Heart. He was pronounced lifeless at 1:14 a.m. An post-mortem was scheduled with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
• Sandersville police discovered the physique of a person Saturday afternoon inside a house on Gwendolyn Road whereas responding to a report of a home dispute on the tackle. Santavious Louis Roberts, 35, of Sandersville, has been arrested.
• Brandon Peebles, 24, of Girard, was shot round 10:45 p.m. Thursday within the 2300 block of Prague Courtroom, the identical neighborhood as Sunday’s capturing. He was pronounced lifeless at 11:23 p.m. Bowen mentioned the sufferer’s physique was despatched to the GBI.

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