Newton County Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 1 Critically Injured: All right Joanne, thank you. We have breaking news in Newton County. Two people are dead, one critically hurt in shootings at two different scenes. The manhunt for the suspected shooter ended in South…
All of this started inside a Walmart on Salem Road in Covington. It then continued at a home about two miles away. In Good Day’s, Marc Teichner is live for us in Newton County. And Marc, this all happened as workers were just stocking the shelves, doing their jobs.
And they were all workers who were involved in all of this. I’m going to step out. We are at the second location, that home where a female, a Walmart employee who’s been identified by family friends as being a 22-year-old, and those family friends telling us the girlfriend of the alleged shooter was shot and killed.
But it actually started at the Walmart on Salem Road, about two miles from our particular location, at about 1:30 in the morning. That’s where, according to sheriff investigators, a male employee who was working during the overnight hours – the store was closed at the time – went out of the store, got a gun from his car, went back into the store and shot and killed a male coworker.
He then, allegedly, as he was leaving, shot another male coworker, critically injuring him before he came to the location where we are right now and shot and killed this 22-year-old female coworker as well. Now all of these folks again were acquaintances, according to the sheriff’s investigators.
They knew each other, but after the shooting took place, the gunman then apparently fled out of state, according to investigators, and he was captured in South Carolina, in Aiken, South Carolina. And as you can imagine, the folks from the Newton County Sheriff’s Office are extremely appreciative of the effort that it was to bring this man to justice. Augusta…
We want to… we appreciate the help from Georgia State Patrol, South Carolina State Patrol, the Covington Police Department, and we had South Carolina State Patrol in the Sheriff’s Office from South Carolina.
the Walmart, though, remains closed at this point. Told it might open up later on in the day. But that is the latest from the scene here…
Source: raialkhalij + aljazeera