Two people were shot on I-20 Sunday afternoon, forcing them to pull over before Richmond County Deputies arrived to help. The victims are now receiving medical care at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udd0d What We Know:<\/strong> Richmond County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of gunfire near mile marker 196 on I-20 around 4:29 p.m. on June 29, according to Lt. Kelly, the department’s spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When deputies arrived, they found two victims who had pulled to the roadside with apparent gunshot wounds. Both were taken to an area hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83d\udea8 Why It Matters:<\/strong> The shooting happened on one of Augusta’s busiest highways during daylight hours, raising concerns about public safety on a major transportation route used by thousands of people daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ud83e\udd14 What We Don’t Know:<\/strong> Authorities haven’t released information about potential suspects, the victims’ conditions, or what led to the shooting. The sheriff’s office described the case as “an active investigation” with no further details available.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two people were shot on I-20 Sunday afternoon, forcing them to pull over before Richmond County Deputies arrived to help. The victims are now receiving medical care at the hospital. \ud83d\udd0d What We Know: Richmond County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of gunfire near mile marker 196 on I-20 around 4:29 p.m. on June 29, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":27439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"above","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-224684","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\/224684","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=224684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}