Two Augusta brothers wanted in a July shooting that left a woman with gunshot wounds to both legs have been captured, nearly three weeks after Richmond County deputies say they opened fire on a home in the 2800 block of Richmond Hill Road. Michael Bartley-Miller, 22, and Jason Bartley-Miller, 21, were each booked on four counts of aggravated assault.
The brothers were taken into custody on August 13 through a joint operation between the Richmond County Sheriff's Office Crime Suppression Team and the U.S. Marshals Service's Southeastern Fugitive Task Force, according to The Augusta Press. Both men were booked into the Charles B. Webster Detention Center following weeks on the run. As reported by WRDW, the pair now each face four counts of aggravated assault tied to the July 25 shooting.
Gunfire Erupted Before Dawn
According to WRDW's report, a resident of the Richmond Hill Road home was asleep in the living room around 2:47 a.m. on July 25 when she heard multiple unknown male voices outside asking for another woman. She opened the front door and told the men the woman they were looking for was not at the residence, then closed the door — and moments later heard roughly a dozen gunshots ring out.
Richmond County Sheriff's deputies responded to the home around 2:57 a.m. and found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds to both upper thighs. Deputies applied tourniquets to both of her legs before she was transported by ambulance to Wellstar Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. The facility operates the Central Savannah River Area's only designated adult Level I Trauma Center verified by the American College of Surgeons, according to the Georgia Trauma Foundation.
Investigators recovered multiple shell casings in the driveway and front yard, and the home showed four bullet holes on its left side, where deputies believe the suspects fired from. An incident report documented bloodstains throughout the living room and the victim's bedroom. The Richmond County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Division took over the case from patrol deputies.
A Family Already Grieving
Michael and Jason Bartley-Miller are the older brothers of 18-year-old Eric Markquis Bartley-Miller, who was shot and killed just five weeks earlier, on June 20, during a party shooting at a rented home on Warren Road in Augusta, according to reporting reviewed in connection with the case. In that earlier shooting, Richmond County Sheriff's deputies arrested three teenagers and charged them with murder, aggravated assault, and possession of machine guns, as reported by News 12 26 Augusta at the time.
Investigators have not formally declared a retaliatory motive connecting the two shootings. What is documented is that the July 25 gunmen were searching for a woman who was not at the Richmond Hill Road residence when they opened fire — the same neighborhood where a woman named Yolanda Epps was shot and killed at the Cedarwood Apartments in March 2025, and where a 39-year-old man was wounded near Ruby Drive in a separate shooting the following May, according to WRDW's earlier coverage.
Aggravated Assault Carries Steep Exposure
Under Georgia Code § 16-5-21, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon is a felony carrying a statutory prison sentence of one to 20 years per count upon conviction, according to legal reference materials describing the statute. With four counts each, Michael and Jason Bartley-Miller face substantial potential prison exposure if convicted on all counts.
The Richmond County Sheriff's Office Crime Suppression Team, which led the local end of the arrest operation, is built around specialized patrol strategies, covert surveillance, and high-risk warrant execution, and routinely partners with federal task forces to run down fugitives, per the sheriff's office's own description of the unit. The multi-agency approach mirrors past Richmond County fugitive cases, including a suspect extradited from Thailand earlier this year in a separate Augusta killing.
The Richmond Hill Road shooting adds to a grim tally for the county. By late 2025, Richmond County authorities had recorded at least 49 homicides within a single calendar year, according to reporting on local crime trends. That backdrop has kept pressure on the sheriff's office and its task forces as violent incidents, including shootings that endanger bystanders and children, continue to draw scrutiny across Augusta.
