Richmond County authorities have charged an Augusta woman in the June 15 beating death of a local father who was found outside a Dollar General.
Tamiko Shynese Bolton, 36, was charged Thursday with murder in the death of 28-year-old Elias Delk. The victim’s body was found in the early morning hours of June 15 outside the Dollar General on Martin Luther King Jr., authorities said.
Delk had been beaten by a group of people with their fists, feet and a stick, leaving him with hematomas to the scalp, broken ribs and a punctured left lung. The injuries caused his death, authorities said. The other suspects have not been arrested.
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Delk had been beaten to death and suffered multiple blunt force trauma, the coroner said last month. The victim was identified online as the loving father of a 5-year-old boy.
Bolton was captured Thursday and held in the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.
Bolton has a long list of arrests in the area. In 2007, she was arrested for possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute and weapon possession, but the firearm charge was dismissed and prosecutors let her plead the drug-dealing charge down to disorderly conduct.
Other previous charges include shoplifting in 2009 and 2014, DUI in 2014, two criminal trespass arrests in 2015 and a long list of traffic offenses.
