Man fatally shot outside Augusta convenience store on Broad Street

A shooting Thursday night shooting at Mom & Pop's convenience store on Broad Street has left one man dead. The store is shown here in a google image.

Date: October 20, 2023

A man was fatally shot Thursday night outside a Broad Street convenience store in Augusta.

Richmond County authorities responded at 7:35 p.m. Thursday to the Mom & Pop’s Convenience Store at 2025 Broad Street.

“Upon deputies arrival, they located one male victim who had been shot at least one time,” sheriff’s Sgt. Caleb Lee said.  “The victim was transported to the hospital where he would succumb to his injuries.”

The name of the victim has not been released, and the sheriff’s office has not released any suspect description or possible motive.

The shooting follows Tuesday night’s gunfire outside a Greene Street grocery business. In that case, four people were shot Tuesday night in an apparent drive-by shooting at the Paul’s IGA on Greene Street. Richmond County deputies were called just after 6 p.m. Tuesday to the store at 2 Greene St., where they found two victims. They were made aware that two additional victims had driven themselves to the hospital.

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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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