Man Shot near Commerce Rd & Jefferson Davis Hwy
According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, a 24-year-old man was fatally shot in South Richmond on Friday, November 26, 2010. Joplin Street is located between Commerce Road and Jefferson Davis Highway in the 8th District. Below is the article. Wendell Jones of the 1400 block of Lenmore Street died at VCU Medical Center, police said. Police [...]
Police Report Carjacking on Warwick Village Drive
The Richmond Times Dispatch is reporting that the Richmond Police were investigating a report of a carjacking this morning on Warwick Village Drive. No injuries were reported. The carjacking was reported at 5:08 a.m. and involved a blue 1993 Chevrolet Astro van. The suspects were described as two black men in their early 20s, both with [...]
Body found at Hillside Court
The Richmond Police Department is investigating a body found at Hillside Court: “It is very clearly not natural causes,” said Richmond police Capt. Harvey Powers. Extra units were called in for crowd control and more than 150 people now surround police lines that have blocked off a section of the south Richmond complex.
Murder on Clarkson Road
The Richmond Police Department is investigating a shooting that resulted in a homicide on Saturday afternoon: Around 12:45 p.m. a report of a shooting in an apartment at 1732 Clarkson Road came in to Richmond Police. Officers found a male with a gunshot wound inside the location. The victim was taken to VCU Medical Center, [...]
Shooter picked up in Overlook Street killing
At approximately 8:48 p.m. Friday, Richmond Police were called to the 1400 block of Overlook Street for a report of shots fired. When officers arrived, they found Christopher A. Johnson, 22, last known address 6700 block of Elk Lane, dead in the street from a gunshot wound. As a result of officers’ quick response and [...]
Police seek Edwards Avenue rapist
Richmond Police are looking for a man who stabbed and raped a woman in the 1800 block of Edwards Avenue just before midnight on Saturday. The woman told police the unknown man grabbed her and dragged behind a home where he assaulted her. The rapist is described as a white male, age 18 to 20. [...]
Move the jail to Southside?
The RTD is reporting on a proposal that may move the city jail across the river: A group that includes prominent contractors, architects and the law firm of state Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, D-Richmond, has submitted an unsolicited proposal to build a jail for the city of Richmond, perhaps off Commerce Road in South [...]
Community walk with Chief Norwood in Oakgrove
Chief Bryan T. Norwood and members of his Command Staff will conduct a community walk through tonight in the Oak Grove community. The walk-through starts at 6 p.m. at Oak Grove Park (2200 Gordon Avenue). Groups will fan out through the Gordon, Fairfax and Halifax area to speak with residents and business owners about their [...]
Payne arrested in shooting on Laveta Drive
Robert Lee Payne, 58, of the 400 block of Deter Road, is was arrested yesterday and charged with aggravated assault, malicious wounding and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in the shooting of a woman inside a residence in the 400 block of Laveta Drive. Her injury is not life [...]
RPD seeks info on two males involved in sexual assault
The Richmond Police Department is asking for help identifying two males involved in a domestic-related sexual assault that occurred about 9AM on Sunday, February 14th in the 4000 block of Midlothian Turnpike. The female victim reported two men forced their way into her apartment where one man beat her and the other sexually assaulted her. [...]
South Richmond rapper, Mike Ezie, shot in studio
Rap, lies, and videotape identifies the victim in the shooting last night: Police are still withholding the name of local rapper killed in a recording studio last night. But sources say the victim was known as “Mike Ezie,” a member of a collective of emcees known at the “Young Richmond Outcasts.” Their songs include “Weirdo [...]
A Better Understanding of the Southside Police Organization
The Richmond Police Department consists of four precincts. The entire police department has as its head officer Police Chief Norwood. The department is then separated into two areas which are presided over by Major Margaret Horn and Major John Keohane. The two areas are in turn separated into four precincts, and each one has a [...]
Teenage Robbery Victim Shot by Unknown Assailant
Due to a lack of confirmatory information, the source of this report can’t be released, but the word is that a 19 year-old man was shot by an adult who was attempting to rob the young man at the corner of Roanoake and Midlothian at about 1:30 today. There was no report as to the [...]
A Rash of Murders Hits the Southside
It’s hard to believe that three people have been murdered on the Southside in one week. The good news is that the suspected murderers of LaMoan Kahlil Hart are in custody. On October the third, according to the Richmond Police Department, “Terrell A. Collins, 31, of the 100 block of East 15th Street, turned himself [...]
Teen Robbers Arrested in Southside Richmond
As further proof of their exemplary effort to fight crime, the Richmond Police Department released the following: Richmond Police quickly made arrests in two robbery attempts and a robbery that occurred within hours last night in the City’s Southside.
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