SPRINGFIELD — A man is in custody after a fatal shooting in Springfield left one person dead on a quiet residential street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s Happening:<\/strong> Effingham County deputies found an adult man dead from a gunshot wound on Hummingbird Lane just after 9 p.m. on November 4, according to the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office. The victim has not been identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Important:<\/strong> Alonzo Jolomna Simaj fled to neighboring Chatham County after the shooting, according to the sheriff’s office. Chatham County deputies captured him off Ogeechee Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between the Lines:<\/strong> Deputies initially responded to a call about property damage from a shooting. When they arrived, they discovered the man’s body on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What’s Next:<\/strong> Simaj faces a felony murder charge, according to Captain Steve Edenfield of the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division. More charges are pending as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sources:<\/strong> Effingham County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=32]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SPRINGFIELD — A man is in custody after a fatal shooting in Springfield left one person dead on a quiet residential street. What’s Happening: Effingham County deputies found an adult man dead from a gunshot wound on Hummingbird Lane just after 9 p.m. on November 4, according to the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office. The victim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":220814,"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":[19614,8519],"class_list":["post-235895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-alonzo-jolomna-simaj","tag-shooting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235895","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=235895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}