A man was found dead from a gunshot wound Thursday morning in the 500 block of Highland Avenue in Augusta. Richmond County deputies arrived at the scene just after 7 a.m. following reports of gunfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just the facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 The victim was found unresponsive upon the deputies\u2019 arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 He had sustained at least one gunshot wound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 The Richmond County coroner pronounced the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Authorities have not yet released additional details, including the victim\u2019s identity or any possible motives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The details:<\/strong> Investigators are still on-site, working to determine the circumstances of the shooting. No suspects have been named, and police have not said if they believe the shooting was targeted or random.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How you can help:<\/strong> Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact the Richmond County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Tips can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man was found dead from a gunshot wound Thursday morning in the 500 block of Highland Avenue in Augusta. Richmond County deputies arrived at the scene just after 7 a.m. following reports of gunfire. Just the facts: \u2022 The victim was found unresponsive upon the deputies\u2019 arrival. \u2022 He had sustained at least one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":26407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8519],"class_list":["post-210766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-shooting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}