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Two dead, 35 wounded in shooting at Georgia block party

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Two people were killed and 35 others were wounded in a shooting at a block party early Sunday in south-central Georgia.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that shots were fired at about 1:25 a.m. in Vienna, a rural community about two hours south of Atlanta.

Two men were pronounced dead at the scene. Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy identified them as JaQuevion Jackson, 21, of Cordele, Georgia; and Macaleb Jackson, 23, of Hawkinsville, Georgia.

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