Gunfire brings deputies to Midnight Pass in Aiken County
No injuries reported so far in active investigation
GRANITEVILLE, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Aiken County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed a shooting incident happened Sunday on Midnight Pass, just off Exit 11 on eastbound Interstate 20.
News 12 reached out to the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office just after 4 p.m., after hearing police scanner dispatch calls about a shooting incident on Midnight Pass.
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Capt. Eric Abdullah with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a shooting incident occurred, but no injuries were reported.
It was one of the latest in an outbreak of shootings across the CSRA in the past week:
- A man was shot to death Saturday night in the 400 block of Second Street in Thomson.
- A shooting Saturday afternoon left one man injured in the 1700 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Augusta.
- A 43-year-old man was shot dead early Friday in the 1100 block of Wren Lane just outside Louisville.
- A 15-year-old boy was killed Thursday in a shooting at Windsor Spring Road and Rosier Road outside a convenience store that’s seen more than one deadly shooting in recent years.
- Late Thursday, a man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a woman was injured in a shooting on Henry Street in Augusta.
- A North Augusta 18-year-old is facing a charge of attempted murder after shooting his dad Wednesday night.
- And on Monday, a Graniteville 19-year-old died after being found shot on Redd Street near Tennessee Avenue in Aiken.
The shootings are all part of an outbreak of violence that’s claimed more than 90 lives in a little over a year across the CSRA.
The outbreak has affected communities large and small on both sides of the Savannah River, although as the largest community, Augusta has been hit hard.
Many of the victims and suspects have been young men, and authorities have blamed much of the problem on gangs.
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