Authorities seek information on vehicle connected to Jefferson County teen's fatal shooting
Jefferson County Sheriff Office investigators following leads into the recent shooting death of 19-year-old Khia Shields are asking the community for information about a dark colored 4-door car.
Two photographs of the vehicle have been released, which a JCSO spokesman said came from a video taken from the Washington Street neighborhood where Shields was killed. The occupants of the vehicle are wanted for questioning.
Shields, a 2022 graduate of Jefferson County High School and current student at Georgia Southern University, was asleep on the couch around 1 a.m. on Aug. 26 when she was struck by a bullet that entered her mother’s home.
The JCSO, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Region 7 Field Office and Wrens Police Department are working together to follow leads to determine who is responsible for the shooting.
“We have had a lot of calls and we’re following up on every one of them,” a spokesman for the JCSO said. “Some of them have not turned up any new information, but we are following up on everything we hear about.”
Anyone with information on the vehicle or the shooting is encouraged to call the JCSO at (478) 625-7538, the GBI Region 7 Field Office at (706) 595-2575 or the GBI Tip Line at (800) 597-8477.
This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Deputies seek information on vehicle in Shields death investigation
