An arrest has been made in the shooting death of an Augusta woman.
Members of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division and Crime Suppression Team along with the United States Marshal’s Southeast Regional Task Force arrested Cornell Thomas Thursday without incident on the 2300 block of Mims Road, according to an email from Sgt. William McCarty with the sheriff’s office.
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Thomas was wanted in connection with the killing of 43-year-old Cynthia “Boosie” Wright, authorities said. The victim was killed at the Union Agener Distribution Center in Augusta, where she reportedly worked as a security guard.
Thomas was released from prison in February after serving 14 months on a 10-year sentence for a felony child cruelty case in Screven County. Before that, he was released after serving just a year of a 10-year sentence for aggravated assault and domestic violence cases from Richmond County, according to DOC records.
The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office responded at 6 a.m. Tuesday to the 1100 block of 5th Street in reference to a shooting.
Deputies located a female who was shot at least one time. Coroner Mark Bowen responded, and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the company website, Union Agener Animal Health is a biotechnology unit dedicated to animal health. The Augusta plant was acquired in October 2018 by Fernando de Castro Marques, a majority shareholder of União Química, one of the largest groups in the pharmaceutical industry in Brazil.
The unit has state-of-the-art technology and produces, on a large scale, Posilac product used to increase milk production. The product is marketed globally under the trademarks Posilac® and Lactotropin. This factory complex is FDA certified, having the product present in 22 countries, including the USA.
