Edwin Dean Williams Jr was 20 when he was fatally shot on the evening of Saturday, June 13, 2015, on Amsterdam Drive in Augusta, Georgia. Richmond County Sheriff’s Office officers who responded found Williams with at least one gunshot wound; he was transported to Georgia Regents University Medical Center and pronounced dead in the early hours of June 14. A second person sustained a gunshot wound to the hand.

Investigators quickly identified a suspect. Within days the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office named 19-year-old Jaquez Jackson and obtained a warrant charging him with murder and aggravated assault. Jackson was arrested without incident the following Monday at a Washington Road residence by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and booked into the Richmond County jail. The motive for the shooting was not released.

If anyone has information about Edwin’s death or saw activity on Amsterdam Drive that night, please share what is known with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.