55-year-old killed in shooting at Augusta convenience store
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - We now know the name of a man fatally shot at a convenience store on Broad Street – the latest victim of a surge in violent crime that’s claimed more than 100 lives across the CSRA in the past year and a half.
Ricky Cooper, 55, was pronounced dead at 8:02 p.m. Thursday at Augusta University Medical Center, where he’d been taken after the shooting.
Deputies had responded to the Mom & Pop Convenience Store, 2025 Broad St., at 7:35 p.m. to investigate a report of gunshots. Once there, they found Cooper.
This isn’t the only shooting this week at a store in Augusta. On Thursday, four people were injured in a drive-by shooting at Paul’s IGA, Greene Street and East Boundary. Witnesses said it appeared someone had fired a machine gun from a sport utility vehicle.
Across the river, a woman who was four months pregnant died of a gunshot wound after a shooting that also injured several others over the weekend in the Barnwell area.
The outbreak of violent crime has affected communities large and small on both sides of the river, but Augusta, as the largest city in the CSRA, has been hit especially hard.
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