One injured, one arrested after shooting on Carrington Court

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating a capturing Tuesday morning in Augusta.

Deputies mentioned the capturing was reported at 9:35 a.m. within the 3700 block of Carrington Courtroom.

There was one male sufferer that was shot a number of occasions, in response to RCSO Sgt. Kimberly Lee. The sufferer was transported to the hospital for his accidents.

The Felony Investigation Division was referred to as to the scene, which result in the arrest of Jamaari Whitfield, 18, of Hephzibah.

Whitfield was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm in the course of the fee of against the law.

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Augusta had gone a number of days with no capturing after enduring a month-long surge in violent crimes that left a number of individuals lifeless in shootings.

Sheriff Richard Roundtree blamed a few of that surge in gang violence and pledged proactive steps resembling additional patrols in focused areas and using crime-fighting surveillance cameras.

TACKLING LOCAL CRIME:

Whereas a lot of the crime wave has taken place in Richmond County, it’s even proven up in violence throughout the Savannah River in South Carolina.

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.
• Late Could 3, Charles L. Bradley, 49, of Aiken was discovered shot lifeless inside a automobile at Hampton Avenue and Meeting Road in Aiken. The capturing was one in every of three gunfire incidents that evening in Aiken. Nobody was damage within the different incidents.
• Capturing 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 very least one gunshot wound and died on the scene.
• On April 19, Brittany Dougherty was discovered slain exterior a vacant dwelling within the 1500 block of Conklin Lane. Her dying was thought of suspicious from the beginning, however inside hours the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace dominated her dying a murder.
• On April 18, Johnnie Coleman was discovered shot lifeless within the 1900 block of Previous Savannah Street. 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 exterior the Circle Okay at 1739 Walton Approach in Augusta. Suspect Yelena Buckner, 33, of Augusta, was later discovered and arrested on prices of homicide and possession of a firearm in the course of 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 Street 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 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 Courtroom. He was pronounced lifeless at 11:23 p.m.

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