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Woman stabbed in Flemington altercation
Flown to Memorial in Savannah for treatment
Flemington stabbing
A woman stabbed during an altercation Tuesday night with another woman is prepared to be airlifted to Memorial Health University Center in Savannah.

A Flemington woman was injured Tuesday evening after being stabbed multiple times at a residence on WW Winn Avenue.

According to Liberty County Sheriff’s Office public affairs officer Lt. Phillip Bohannon, an altercation took place between two women, resulting in a stabbing shortly after 8 p.m.  Bohannon emphasized this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the community.

The woman was transported to Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah by Life Star.  The woman who allegedly caused the injuries has been detained and warrants are in the process outlying the charges she’s facing.

 

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Early morning accident in McIntosh County kills five
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Five people were killed and another one was injured following a two-vehicle accident in McIntosh County on Sunday morning.

Witnesses told Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown that a Jeep Cherokee was traveling south on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended an Infiniti. The Cherokee hit a guard rail, bursting into flames. The crash and ensuing fire killed one adult and four children.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee has been identified a Reagan Dougan, 27. GSP troopers have learned she rented the vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., and was heading to Florida to meet her husband. The children were a 9-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy.

Ashdown said the Cherokee was a rental and authorities are in the process of identifying the victims.  The driver of the Infiniti, from Long County, was transported to Southeast Regional Health System in Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at mile marker 62 around 6 a.m.

 

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