Neighbors react to death of a toddler in an overnight shooting

AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF)- An overnight shooting in Augusta took the life of a toddler and injured his mother.

NewsChannel 6 spoke to several neighbors and while most of them did not want to speak on camera, they all say they are heartbroken by the news of the toddler’s death and are now afraid more shootings like this could happen.

“Things escalated and then they start shooting. And I heard pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,” said Lawrence Freeman, a neighbor of the victims…

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