Murder indictments were handed down this week by the Richmond County grand jury, including one which accuses an Augusta man of killing two people in separate violent encounters.
Kelvin D. Lewis, 33, was named Tuesday, June 28, in multiple-count indictment that accuses him of murder and weapon violations in connection with two deaths.
Lewis is accused of murder in the fatal shooting of 72-year-old Johnny Coleman who was standing outside the Perry’s Pig barbecue restaurant on Old Savannah Road early in the morning of April 18.
Hours after sheriff investigators were called to the scene of Coleman’s death, the body of 29-year-old Brittany Dougherty was discovered on the side of Conklin Avenue. Both victims had been shot to death.
The Richmond County grand jury also indicted two Augusta women on murder charges in unrelated cases.
Sarah Preddy, 25, is accused of murder in the March 24 fatal shooting of her neighbor, 60-year-old Shirley Bush. They lived next door to each other in the Singleton Apartments on Damascus Road. An argument over a parking space preceded the shooting, according to earlier reports in The Augusta Press.
Yelena C. Buckner, 34, is also accused of murder in the April 18 killing of Jenefer Herron, 52. Witnesses told sheriff investigators Buckner became angry and an argument between her and Herron began inside the Circle K on the 1700 block of Walton Way. Herron walked away from the argument, but Buckner pursued her and fired a fatal gunshot at Herron as she sat in her vehicle, according to statements made recently at Buckner’s bond hearing.
Buckner, Preddy, and Lewis are each being held without bond.
Sandy Hodson is a staff reporter covering courts for The Augusta Press. Reach her at sandy@theaugustapress.com.
