A sergeant with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office was among two who died Sunday afternoon from a chemical gas leak while responding to an alarm activation at Xytex Corporation in Augusta, authorities said.
Sgt. Greg Meagher (pictured) was dispatched to the alarm at 3:36 p.m. Sunday on Emmitt Street in downtown Agusta. He inhaled an unknown chemical substance and died, according to Sgt. Michael Shane McDaniel Sr.
The identity of the other victim was not immediately clear. WGAC’s Austin Rhodes is reporting several there officers were injured and hospitalized.
Sgt. Meagher has made in the news before. In June 2004, he was a drug investigator when he was shot in the face at the climax of an undercover sting in Burke County. He was shot in the jaw and the bullet exited the back of his neck. He eventually recovered and returned to the sheriff’s office.
Stay tuned for more on Sunday’s double fatality…
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