1 dead, 1 hospitalized after Glynn County shooting, police say

Two radical were shot, 1 fatally, connected Sunday successful Glynn County, authorities said.

This comes arsenic the Glynn County Police Department has seen an uptick successful unit this year.

The Glynn County Police Department said officers responded astir 8:15 p.m. Sunday to aggregate reports of a shooting astatine Seldon Park connected Genoa Martin Drive successful Brunswick.

Police said they recovered 1 idiosyncratic successful the parkland who had been shot. The idiosyncratic was taken to a hospital, wherever helium died, constabulary said.

According to the Police Department, different idiosyncratic was transported to the infirmary with a gunshot wound. That person’s information was not instantly known.

The probe continues. Anyone with accusation astir the lawsuit is asked to telephone investigators astatine 912-554-7817 oregon Silent Witness astatine 912-264-1333.

Chief of Police Jacques Battiste expressed his condolences to the household of the idiosyncratic who died.

“We cognize that the family’s grief and nonaccomplishment is simply a load which nary 1 tin recognize oregon comprehend,” Battiste said.

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According to Battiste, determination has been an summation successful unit this year.

“We are saddened by the uptick successful unit we person seen with implicit 2 twelve shootings this year,” Battiste said. “Glynn County Police volition utilize each disposable assets to intervene successful the emergence successful shootings and we pledge to motorboat caller initiatives to combat this unit which is taking our young men and women from america for senseless reasons.”

In effect to the caller shootings and different convulsive actions, the Police Department said it volition instrumentality further measures to “combat transgression behavior” and supply a safer situation for the community.

Battiste and the Police Department are asking assemblage leaders to travel guardant and telephone connected residents to scope retired to youth, saying, “We privation the young men and women of this assemblage to cognize they are valued, they are needed, they are important, and their aboriginal is captious to each of us.”

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