Augusta man is wanted for Broad Street shooting

Desmond Swearinger (file mugshot)

Date: April 12, 2022

An Augusta man is wanted for shooting a woman last Thursday on Broad Street.

Desmond Shiquan Swearinger, 27, is wanted for aggravated assault that occurred just after midnight Thursday on the 500 block of Broad Street.

The victim, 27-year-old Charniquea Mingledolph, was shot while talking to two men about money.  According to a sheriff’s report, the victim was found laying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to her lower abdomen. A Facebook video shows the women being assisted by a deputy and a witness who took off a shirt to help.

Desmond Swearinger is known to frequent the area of East Boundary, and he should be considered armed and dangerous, according to a wanted poster. Any information concerning the location of this subject, please contact Inv. Brian Manecke at (706) 821-1464, or any violent crimes investigator at the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office at (706) 821-1080.

Greg Rickabaugh is the Jail Report contributor for The Augusta Press. Reach him at greg.rickabaugh@theaugustapress.com 

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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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