An employee of the Georgia Carolina State Fair in Augusta allegedly pulled out a semi-automatic assault rifle and a handgun and started shooting on the fairgrounds.
Richmond County deputies responded about 7:20 p.m. Monday to reports of an armed man in the fair’s RV parking lot, the Augusta Chronicle reported. Officers heard gunshots, and they found the fair worker with the rifle and the handgun.
The employee, Sean Antonio Nelson, 39, of Huntsville, Ala., pointed the gun at a colleague’s chest and demanded he assist him in the search of an unknown woman in the fair’s RV parking lot, the sheriff’s office said. With guns still drawn, Nelson approached other colleagues in the parking lot in his quest for the woman, authorities said.
It was not clear why Nelson was searching for the woman.
Nelson was arrested on charges of pointing or aiming a firearm at another, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, terroristic threats and acts, and false imprisonment, the Chronicle reported.
No one was injured in the incident.
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