Augusta man is fatally shot on Richmond Hill Road West

Khalil Baker, from Facebook

Date: December 01, 2021

An Augusta man was fatally shot on Wednesday on Richmond Hill Road West.

Khalil Baker, 23, of the 500 block of Richmond Hill Road West, was shot at least one time on the block where he lives, Coroner Mark Bowen said in a press release. Baker was pronounced dead on the scene at 11:35 a.m. Wednesday. 

Baker will have an autopsy done at the GBI Lab, the coroner said.

The sheriff’s office had not released anything on suspects, arrests or a possible motive at the time of this post.

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Greg Rickabaugh is an award-winning crime reporter in the Augusta-Aiken area with experience writing for The Augusta Chronicle and serving as publisher of The Jail Report. He also owns AugustaCrime.com. Rickabaugh is a 1994 graduate of the University of South Carolina and has appeared on several crime documentaries on the Investigation Discovery channel. He is married with two daughters.

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