Richmond County authorities spent the morning canvassing two east Augusta apartment complexes seeking suspects in the fatal shooting of the Augusta Symphony's principal cellist.

Deputies and investigators fanned out through the neighborhoods, distributing reward fliers in an attempt to find whoever killed 26-year-old David Reader early Sunday morning.

Mr. Reader was found dead in the driver's seat of his 1998 Toyota Camry shortly after midnight in the East Augusta Commons in the 400 block of East Boundary. Investigators now believe that he was buying drugs in the area, according to Lt. Scott Peebles.