The suspected shooter is 24-year-old Dwayne Eduh of Covington.
Following the three assaults, Eduh fled east on I-20. The NCSO, assisted by the Georgia State Patrol, requested additional help from the Aiken County Sheriff’s Workplace and South Carolina State Troopers.
In response to a press launch from the Aiken County Sheriff’s Workplace, they entered right into a “temporary standoff” with Eduh at 3:55 a.m., after which Eduh shot himself. No deputies have been injured.
Eduh stays in vital situation at a hospital in Augusta. The NCSO was unable to say the place Eduh administered the self-inflicted shot.
The NCSO additionally corrected a earlier discovering the place it was believed that the primary sufferer was shot and killed contained in the Walmart and the second sufferer was shot and injured within the retailer’s car parking zone.
All 4 individuals concerned labored on the Salem Street Walmart.
Clarke’s members of the family have been on the NCSO’s information convention. They alleged that it took authorities practically half an hour to reply to their 911 name.
“So it took 29 minutes to depart from Walmart a mile away to go to 345 Emerson Path, my home,” mentioned Samantha Clarke, who lived with Akeela. “Twenty-nine minutes it took you guys to come back to my home. It is truly 29 odd minutes as a result of I known as and my daughter known as, she was on the cellphone for 29 minutes.”
NCSO Public Info Officer and Sergeant Jack Redlinger, who spoke on the convention, mentioned the workplace’s response time can be regarded into.
“We aren’t acquainted with that, however we are going to test into that with 911 and discover out precisely what number of minutes,” Redlinger mentioned.
The NCSO was unable to touch upon the motive or the victims’ relationship with each other and their attackers, saying they’ll solely verify them to have been “acquaintances” as of now.
“We do not know [the] motive right now,” Redlinger mentioned. “All I do know is that they have been acquaintances and so they all labored right here at Walmart.”
What led to Eduh’s assaults stays unclear. The investigation stays energetic.
The Walmart on Salem Street is closed for the rest of at present.
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