On the morning of June 14, 2022, Eurl Kittles, a 42-year-old Black man from Augusta, was at the Captain D's on Wrightsboro Road when violence suddenly broke through an ordinary workday. Richmond County deputies were sent to the restaurant at about 9:25 a.m. after a shooting was reported, and when they arrived they found Kittles suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The coroner later said he was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:20 a.m., turning a daytime visit to a busy restaurant into one of Richmond County's homicides that week.
Early reports painted the scene as abrupt and deeply unsettling. Kittles was described in local coverage as working inside the restaurant, and another local report said people who knew him identified him as a maintenance worker who also owned a club and was known by the nickname Black Hollywood. What is consistent across the reporting is that he was not found in some hidden corner of the city or late at night on a deserted road, but in a public restaurant in broad daylight, which gave the case an especially jarring quality.
As investigators moved quickly, the Richmond County Sheriff's Office publicly identified Ravanell Gomillion as the man they wanted in connection with the killing and warned that he should be considered armed and dangerous. The charges announced against him were murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Local reporting added that investigators believed he had come to the restaurant because he suspected his girlfriend was there, and that Kittles was shot during that confrontation.
The case did not remain in the stage of an unnamed mystery for long. Follow-up reporting said authorities later arrested Gomillion in connection with Kittles' death, giving the case a named suspect rather than leaving it suspended in rumor. The accessible sources I reviewed consistently point to Gomillion as the suspect and to those initial murder and firearm allegations as the core of the case.
What remains from the public record is the image of a life cut short in a place where people expect to order food, work a shift, and go home. Kittles' death was reported as one more homicide on the county's tally, but the details make it feel more intimate than a statistic: a man inside a neighborhood restaurant, a burst of gunfire in the middle of the morning, deputies rushing in, and a family left with funeral arrangements only days later. His obituary later marked the sorrow that followed, with services held at the end of June and burial in Sylvania, underscoring how quickly the story moved from breaking news to mourning.
