An unknown man fired on three Texas Roadhouse restaurant employees on Friday, Dec. 17 – and no one knows why.
The employees were in the restaurant parking lot when the shots were fired. No one was hurt in the shooting.
Restaurant workers made a frantic call to 911. The recorded call from one of the restaurant workers is below.
The shooter also made a 911 call, which is also in the recording.
The suspect – Timothy Ryan Ashmore of Thomson – placed his called to 911 after he fired at the workers’ car. He told dispatch that he shot a white Kia, according to a sheriff’s report. He stayed there and was arrested.
A sheriff’s report says the three employees included two sisters and a man. They told deputies that they got off work at the restaurant on Sherwood Drive just after 11 p.m. on that Friday. They were inside a 2022 Kia Sportage when a man in a white sweatshirt pointed a gun in their direction. He was standing in the roadway in front of the business.
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The driver said she “backed her vehicle out of the parking space when the suspect began to fire shots at her vehicle,” the report says. “One of the projectiles made entry in the rear bumper of her vehicle.”
An arrest warrant says Ashmore fired a .45-caliber handgun at the car six times while chasing it, striking in the lower hatch next to the license plate.
All three went down to Outback Steakhouse on Washington Road and met with deputies there. They were all seen by paramedics.
Ashmore, 28, was eventually charged with three counts of aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and weapon possession.
The suspect has no previous arrests in Richmond County. A Facebook page under the name Ryan Ashmore says he became recently engaged and works as an investor at a financial group. The page also describes the suspect as an “Audio Engineering and Composer/Studio Musician/Photographer/Videographer.”
Ashmore remains in the Richmond County Detention Center without bond.
Greg Rickabaugh is the Jail Report Contributor for The Augusta Press. Reach him at greg.rickabaugh@theaugustapress.com
