Two people were killed and four others injured during a shooting between rival motorcycle gangs in Augusta, Georgia, Saturday night.
WSB-TV noted that police received calls about the shooting at 6:35 p.m.
The Associated Press reported that the shooting broke out in a clubhouse that belonged to one of the gangs, and shell casings were found as far as a block away.
Over 150 shell casings were recovered, and Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree said, “With the amount of firepower and carnage we saw at the scene, this could have been a much more horrific event.”
Roundtree indicated that his office arrested 12 people in connection with the shootout. Eleven are from somewhere other than Augusta, and ten face murder charges.
The two deceased individuals were identified as 30-year-old Keith Coates of Valdosta, Georgia, and 51-year-old Germayne Farrell of Daytona Beach, Florida.
Mugshots of those charged in the Augusta, Georgia, shooting: Top (L-R) Larry Sutton, 42; Cory Sapp, 30. Bottom (L-R) James Bryant, 31; Freddie Wallace Crosson, 39.
Mugshots of those charged in the Augusta, Georgia, shooting: Top (L-R) Kenneth Lamar Taylor, 43; Larry Ross, 44; McKayla Renee Rickett, 26. Bottom (L-R) Tysen Darrell Harper, 38; Jessica Sapp, 30; Matthew Perry Willis, 28.
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