A man has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault in a shooting in south Augusta Saturday night that led to the discovery of weapons and drugs, police said.
According to a Richmond County jail committal, Kevin Wayne Self, 32, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
Richmond County sheriff’s Investigator Kendall Brown said the shooting occurred about 9:20 p.m. on Shelby Drive, off Lumpkin Road. Two white men in a blue and gray Chevrolet truck pulled into the driveway at 2942 Shelby Drive. The men got out of the truck and shouted racial slurs at a black family next door, the investigator said. When confronted, one of the men drew a revolver and fired twice, striking a man in the right hand, Investigator Brown said.
The men fled toward Lumpkin Road. The victim was treated at the scene.
Police searched the house at 2942 Shelby Drive and found five high-powered rifles, three shotguns and live ammunition in a bedroom and three loaded handguns in the living room, Investigator Brown said. They also found 329 grams of marijuana, an unmarked bottle of unknown pills, a digital scale with marijuana residue, a metal marijuana grinder and marijuana-distribution bags, he said.
The occupants of the house, James and Patricia Bowden, were arrested, the investigator said. Mr. Bowden was charged with one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Mrs. Bowden was charged with three counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
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Good job RSCO on following the incident all the way through and making some arrests. As for the thug shooter, I'm sure he will be caught soon and like all of the other violent criminals around here, he NEVER needs to walk amongst society again. I'm sure Justus4 will greatly appreciate the media informing us these were white thugs since they NEVER do that or maybe this is just such an abnormality compared to the everyday crime in the area. Either way, thugs are thugs and I doubt very seriously you will see anyone standing up for these idiots due to the color of their skin - jail em!!
If you read this story in each different local media, on here and on TV, if it weren't for the address, you might not even recognize it as the same story. One of the stories said the incident was triggered when the people that drove up were angered by too loud music, which around there is usually coupled with vulgar lyrics. I'm glad they got the shooter, because shooting and name-calling triggered because of a loud music incident is both wrong and stupid, but I wonder if this happens more often than we realize. Doesn't sound like there was anyone in the right in this situation. I appreciate law enforcement's fast work.
Good Job Mr. Self & Elder.... good luck with the trials.
Look at this white trash! Way to go RSCO!
I wonder if this truck is the same truck from last week that shot at person and pointed a gun at another? LaTwon is this Obams's fault change we can believe in?
YES! so glad to see the county trying to clean these rednecks off our streets. they're just as involved in criminal activity as the minorities that are targeted.
yeah right -- good luck with your trials. i hope you're all sentenced to prison terms and you get your behinds whooped and violated in there.
The minorities aren't targeted. They are the ones primarily doing most of the crimes! BTW, I'm glad to get this guy off the street as well, but don't try to spin it as if minorities are unfairly targeted by law enforcement.
STFU LolaJean & waugusta92 no one wants to read your racial comments either!
If he shot somebody "Boom boxing the neighborhood" GOOD. If the police will no do something then what do we expect neighborhoods to do? On the flip side what idiots we have in our town. I'll bet these were good CONServatives just exercising their 2d amendment rights. On the other flip, who in their right mind is outside playing loud music at 9:20 at night?
No one deserves to be shot over loud music. Just go inside and call the police then maybe they will catch you also because of your misdeeds. Calling names is wrong but we do not know what happened when the name caller was confronted. Was the other person armed? Throw the book at those arrested because of the drug sales and possession of weapons by a convicted felon. Throw the book at them also if the other person wasn't armed. We do not need trash like this on our streets.
There will never be any mention of what actions may have provoked this entire incident. Only the shooters are guilty of any crime here I'm certain. Darned guns picking on those innocents next door. I just can't imagine the recipient of the gunfire did anything at all to provoke this incident. Naw, just another innocent "victim" of gun violence.
STFU LolaJean & waugusta92 no one wants to read your racial comments either!
Posted by nbbst on Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:15 AM...This must be your first time posting on here, #1 I'm white. 2# I call it like I see it whether its a black or a white. Go check my posts or Hossiv's
I am totaly sympathetic to the aggrevation of that loud crap people play, I couldn't even order my food at checkers the other day because some inconsiderate p.o.s at the car wash wouldn't turn his radio down, but its no excuse for shooting people. Even though I'm almost positive they got close to the same jerkoff response I got from the p.o.s I asked to turn down his radio! Those inconsiderate jerks can make you want to shoot them! lol I'm glad no one was killed and they caught the p.o.s who did it, hope he has a long time to think about it. And that they busted the dealers he went to see!! I bet they got a little revenge they wanting to get on him now too, lol
Just Tired why did he have to be provoked. He was wrong and you find a way to justify this. What if the situation was the other way around would you fell the same way?
I agree with TakeAstand. There was plenty of blame to go around here, it wasn't just the whites at fault. That was evident from the first story I saw on TV when the loud music was mentioned. It turns out it was a black family blasting the music. That house gets plenty of "stranger" traffic, too. Why didn't they check BOTH houses?
Trust me, people get away with playing loud music from midnight to 4am in some subdivisions and if you complain about it, you're more likely to be the one arrested, because everyone else is too afraid to back you up and the perps get all their co-dependents (whether they were present or not) to lie about what happened.
God doesn't make trash Lola Jean, white, black or anything else. People might do wrong things or make wrong choices, but name-calling doesn't fix anything, it just makes things worse.
I've felt like shooting the people that were waking me up every night at 10 and 11pm, but I chose not to. I didn't call them names either. But the people that I asked politely to turn down their music, sure called me names. Vulgar ones, too. They had no right to do that. I just told them to stop approaching my house, to tell his wife to stop cursing at me, and I told them I don't talk to people who can't communicate without cursing.
Baroness, you're such a lackey. Common sense, would tell you to just call the police. That is what they get paid for. So many ignorant folks always focused on race. Why don't y'all join us in the 21st century!!!
Baroness, two points: first, God doesn't make trash but plenty of people are quite successful in turning themselves into trash by the choices they make and the horrors they become to other people--ie, your neighbors & the ppl in this story. Second point: you are a nice person, just the type to get targeted by the trash in your neighborhood. You aren't threatening and you don't try to intimidate, which simply makes you appear weak to the socially unevolved garbage living near you. Such beings are widely mistaken for people, but they are simply animals with the basest of appetites and, possibly, some potential to join the human race. They're still at the stick, bit and bridle stage. You need to move someplace where the neighbors are decent people with at least some respect for others.
RCR, you're a big, fat racist yourself. You just happen to be a black racist at time when you're being allowed to get away with it. Don't flatter yourself by thinking you are ready for modernity, because you, like Justas, are as backward and disgusting as any klansman ever was. The attacks by blacks on whites in this new century is unbelievably disproportionate to anything whites are doing to blacks, so pardon me if I'm a little more careful now than I was 10 years ago. If you don't believe me, just let me know and I'll post the source for that statement. And you know I can do it too.
RichmondCountyResident, I am SICK AND TIRED of you making a race thing out of everything. I didn't complain about about any race, I'm complaining about everyone ELSE making it a race thing, and a name-calling thing, just like YOU do ALL THE TIME! I am sick and tired of your racist name-calling attitude and if there is anyone around here that fits the definite of lackey, maybe you should look in the mirror. I've told you time and again, didn't your mother ever tell you before you call someone else something, take a long look in the mirror. Look up the definition of lackey. NO PART of that definition fits me. And then examine your own conscience, if you have one. And Fiat Lux, no matter what the popular or local definition of trash is, no one has a right to bully other people. Name-calling on here is the epitome of cowardice. It's a tasteless and trashy thing to do. Obviously some people get some kind of perverse, cheap thrill out of it and SHOULD be banned so that higher discourse will be encouraged.
And what you said at 9:12am, AndyWarhol. On target.
And BTW I call the police whenever it is necessary and I am ABLE to do so, sometimes it is simply not possible to take the time to do it and still be fairly certain of anonymity. They DO retaliate if they find out who you are.
I see that some things never change.
No kidding on the retaliation part. There really are horrible animals where you live. I used to live in that part of town and saw a 19yo mother murdered from less than 20 feet away as I was strolling with my family one evening after supper. My neighborhood was even a decent part of South Augusta, but the murderer had chased that poor girl down our street. My child, who was just 3 when she saw this, still worries about that man getting out of prison, from a distance of 16 years. That changed our family in a way I never would have expected.
Aw heck, here's the link even if you aren't asking for the source of those statistics. As you will see, it's a US DOJ report. Look at Tables 42, 46 and 48 if you don't want to read the whole thing. It's a tad out of date, but things have only gotten worse since it was published.
Fiat Lux, I know what you mean, after I saw two dead bodies (murdered) within a 1/2 mile of my home and found out a third dead body (this one thought probably to be natural causes found near a church and the same rec center one of the other bodies was found) was of a man whose last visit was a neighbor's house, a neighbor who was questioned about it, I was very ready to move out of there. That put unanticipated stress on our family, too. But I can't imagine a three year old seeing something like that unfold. I just heard the gunshots in one case, then saw the body on the way to a family member's house and didn't realize what I was seeing until much later in the second case when the murder was discovered.