A shooting on the evening of Friday, June 14, 2024, in the 2800 block of Waterside Drive in Augusta, Georgia, left 53-year-old Black/African American man Edward Goins critically injured. Goins was struck by at least one bullet and taken to Wellstar/MCG for urgent care. He was pronounced dead at 1:08 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, 2024. The Richmond County Coroner’s Office opened an investigation and an autopsy was scheduled to determine the precise cause and manner of death.

Authorities have not released details about circumstances leading up to the shooting, and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has not announced any suspects or arrests. The death was one of several violent fatalities in Richmond County that same weekend, leaving the neighborhood and Goins’s loved ones seeking answers and closure.

If anyone saw activity on Waterside Drive the evening of June 14 or has information about Edward Goins’s death, please come forward to investigators.