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Sheriff's office identifies suspect in Sardis, Georgia shootings that killed four

A law enforcement agency has named the suspect on the record; the four people killed have not been publicly identified, and an independent team is reviewing the deputy-involved shooting.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 12, 2026, 1:58 a.m. ET

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A law enforcement agency has identified on the record the suspect in a series of shootings in , , that officials say left people dead and one person wounded, according to BNO News. The name has not been included in the verified record available for this report, and this account does not name him. people were killed and one was injured, according to figures BNO News attributed to officials. Officials have not released the identities of those killed or the survivor. The sequence unfolded over a single weekend. Deputies responded to an RV on Screven Street in the town of shortly after 1:30 a.m. and found the surviving victim, who had been shot once in the chest and twice in the arm, according to incident reports obtained by WJBF. On the following evening, a man and a woman found dead inside a home on Twin Lakes Drive were pronounced dead at about 8:41 p.m., and later that same night, two women found dead in a home on Tom Bargeron Road were pronounced dead at about 10:17 p.m., according to the account of deputies' response reported by BNO News. Officials have described the location only down to the . The record available for this report gives clock times and the order of the responses but no calendar dates, so no dates are stated here. BNO News reported that the suspect was shot after deputies returned fire and was pronounced dead at the scene. An independent response team is investigating the deputy-involved shooting. Officials have not stated a motive, and no cause or sequence beyond the responses described above has been established on the record.

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