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Richmond County deputies on scene at Knights Inn shooting

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Date: July 20, 2022
By Staff Report

Updated at 3:34 p.m.

An email from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office said that investigators discovered the body of a male. He’d been shot once. It is being called a homicide.

Original post 11:41 a.m. July 20

Richmond County authorities are responding to a shooting death at the Knights Inn on Boy Scout Road.

Details are limited, but the call came in about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday of a shooting at the hotel at 210 Boy Scout Road in Augusta.

The coroner is responding.

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