Brett Walls said two men were killed and multiple other people were shot in a Georgia shooting during a homecoming party near the 600 block of Pine Street in Vienna, Georgia, around 1:15 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 4.
The dead victims were 20 and 23 years old, and their families had been notified. Their bodies were to be given to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for autopsies after the incident.
Brett Walls on the victims
Walls, the Dooly County coroner, said the two dead victims were men. He also said multiple other people were shot but not killed.
That count leaves the scale of the shooting larger than the two deaths alone. Walls did not identify the wounded victims, and the situation was still under investigation when he spoke.
Vienna homecoming party
The shooting happened during a homecoming party, which is what ties the violence to a local gathering rather than a random location on Pine Street. The report places the incident near the 600 block of Pine Street in Vienna, not at a broader area in Dooly County.
Because the bodies will go to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for autopsies, the investigation moves into the next step of determining the cause of death and matching that with the scene details already reported. The unanswered question is what caused the shooting at the homecoming party.
