Theotis H. Hasan II, a 29-year-old Black male from Hephzibah, was killed in Augusta on February 1, 2023, after gunfire shattered the early-morning quiet near Sullivan Road and Hollis Road. Deputies were called to the area just before 3:00 a.m., and when they arrived, they found him unresponsive with gunshot wounds. The scene was the kind that leaves a neighborhood frozen in place for a moment, with investigators stepping into the darkness to piece together what had happened in the minutes
before he died. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and authorities said an autopsy was scheduled as the case moved into the hands of homicide investigators.
The publicly available reports paint the killing as sudden and unresolved in its immediate aftermath. News coverage from the day of the shooting identified Hasan as the victim and confirmed that Richmond County investigators had opened a homicide investigation, but officials released very little beyond the basics of where he was found and when deputies were sent there. What emerges from those reports is the outline of a life interrupted in a roadside stretch of Augusta before sunrise, with law enforcement left to reconstruct the final moments from physical evidence, witness accounts, and whatever leads could be developed afterward.
As for suspects, arrests, and charges, the online reporting I found did not identify any named suspect and did not show any publicly announced arrest tied to Hasan’s death. No trial, conviction, or formal charging information surfaced in the available sources I reviewed. In that sense, the story that remains online is an unfinished one: a young man shot to death on a February morning in Augusta, an investigation launched, and a case that, at least in the public record I located, did not come with the closure of a disclosed arrest or prosecution.
