Police arrived at the 4300 block of The category of assault is fairly broad, perhaps there is a specific category or type of assault should be be pulled out for comparison. Heroin, lots of heroin. #40 on the list, Debbie Gray, was my aunt and one of my best friends. Great article though I wonder what exactly would make the author remark that they would not be surprised to see a body drop on Venable? The four did not testify in their defense. Her lips and eras were torn. Learn how your comment data is processed. I know as a young white guy back then why I felt much safer in the Fan than East End. chimbarozo park was crazy dangerous. ''I guess I just got tired of it and, you know, like I said, there was my father being a minister and everything and there's pressure on us anyway,'' he said. All Right Reserved. If they die at MCV from their wounds or if they go home, its an incident in their locality and RPD couldnt care less about it. Business owners on E. Broad and Grace Streets pulled down their security grates and walked away. There's no question Richmond is seeing a vicious spike in homicides during the past year and a half. Quite a few died. I have to say I agree with Kaykay. Brown, 27, of Mechanicsville, the son of a Richmond preacher, had told police he feared he would shame his family by having a child out of wedlock. Seen on safari: Crocodile swings from elephant's tail. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Serial world record breaker David Rush reclaimed a Guinness World Records title when he threw and caught a fire sword 135 times in 1 minute. Lafayette POYNER. I am a big believer in the broken window theory! If you have any information, contact Henrico Police at (804) 501-5000 or our Cold Case Investigators at (804) 501-5304. Thank you for putting this list together. This is the best start to a year for the 30 years that monthly records are available ahead even each of the last 2 record-low years at this date, and a whopping 59 better than 1994s count of 79 at the end of June. SMITH, Christopher Bryan They say its like night and day between then and now. dont let it get you down. Excellent work. Were you working there at the height of the RVA violence? He now faces a maximum penalty of life in prison plus a $100,000 fine. She was a well-liked volunteer at St. Marys Hospital and a well-known animal lover on her Kensington Avenue block, where neighbors kept on eye on the 71-year-old widow. Yes, there are still guns and drugs in our neighborhood, but not like that anymore. When I stated I was moving here, and to Church Hill, Richmonders tried to warn me away from this area. "It's difficult to understand, frankly, how one human being can do that to another human being," he said. Yes there is violence, but you *cant* say that it isnt safer. The search for Goins dominated the headlines in Richmond in the weeks before he was captured, seeming to take the focus of police and communities otherwise unable to stop the flood of violence around them. The sheer number of killings on Southside in 1994 is shocking. April 12, 1985: 1: Virginia, USA : Thomas H. Homicide numbers remained high but fairly steady - 20 to 40-plus - until the late 1960s. Any one or two of these incidents might happen in a given year, but that year seemed to see it all (including a triple killing on 31st Street in Sugar Bottom, and twin killings on 30th/O Street and 30th/P Streets less than 24 hours apart). Frederick In his confession, Brown said Thomas had been telling people he had made her pregnant. As Harry Kollatz Jr. noted in his March 1993 feature article Murder in the City, Richmonds homicides climbed as the population dropped from a high of 249,521 in 1971 down to 203,056 in 1990. Ive been in my house 13 years and God-willing Ill be here for many more. So far in 2010, Richmond has seen 19 murders (6 of which have come in the East End). no one came to see me there and i had a rottweiler. Where we now have months with no killings, a Times-Dispatch article that year thought a 10-day span without a homicide was noteworthy. WebThe man who called himself Lawrence Vanner was arrested in September 2002, after police found Jun dead and buried under a pile of kitty litter in the basement of her East 0. Richard Tipton, 22, was convicted of six murder charges and acquitted of two, and James H. Roane Jr., 26, was convicted of four murder counts. The only one that I can find is the story MAN IS KILLED IN SHOOTING ON SOUTH SIDE from February 6, 1994 that starts off: A 24-year-old man was shot in the head several times early yesterday in South Richmond and died less than an hour later. I must say how Richmond has come along way from back. * George Allan takes office Four points to consider: 1. The case will proceed next week to a penalty phase. * invasion of Haiti We moved to Church Hill in 1999. I think things are much better than they used to be. Legalized drugs mean that people dont have to resort to violence to settle disputes. WebAs Harry Kollatz Jr. noted in his March 1993 feature article Murder in the City, Richmonds homicides climbed as the population dropped from a high of 249,521 in 1971 down to George Adrian Little did we know about how bad the area still was then even only 2-blocks off of Broad. 3. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. My brother was the 47th homicide victim that year in April, on Lynnhaven Ave. Its a totally different place now. They occurred in homes, alleys, outside of pubs and pool halls. I really felt sorry for him. It was rough, a lot of the city was physically deteriorated, the downtown traffic count on a Saturday morning was about 5 cars per hour and the council was in disarray. This is where the community blogs (and the police department) make a difference in getting information out to areas. But once houses were being renovated things turned around. ''She told me she loved me, and uh, that was it,'' Brown told police when he confessed to murdering Gwendolyn C. Thomas, 17, of Richmond. Debbie Davis, an accounts clerk, had been found dead in her apartment on Sept. 19, 1987. NOTE: 2008 shows 36 homicides. We had just a hair over 20 killings per 100,000 residents in 2010, a number on par with recent years and a far cry form a high of 81 per 100,000 in 1994. JohnAt the risk of putting more work on your shoulders, would be interesting to see if the ratio of aggravated assaults (which the RPD set aside as a notable category) to homicides shows any more stability than your previous assault:homicide ratio did. WebBriley and his brothers were linked to about a dozen murders in the Richmond area. crack houses everywhere. Since then, Richmond has also had the quiet months of February 2010 and June 2010. Here are the source population and homicide numbers for Richmond 1934-2010. In 1936, a Mrs. Smoot allegedly said "I'll kill him before I'll let anybody else have him," before killing her long-cheating husband. I almost forgot, I had a cook out the night the the Briley bros. (one at least) were executed. Excellent reporting! Id add to Houdons comment the fact that MSM doesnt believe positive news sells enough papers/hits to justify spending much time on it. Whites and blacks were fleeing as Richmond boldly arrived on the list of the top-10 deadliest cities and then marched toward the very top. (I am 42 now and left Richmond in 2001 after a spiritual awakening). Thomas' family members said they were disappointed that Brown pleaded guilty, thus avoiding the spectacle of a jury trial. I post hard data showing that RIchmond is safer than any time in the past 60 years and your response its not a safe enough place to live or visit? * fire at St.James on Franklin Street Right now we have a shot gun victim, female, whos looks like shes going to make it. I spoke to Moniques mom recently, and she told me of all the treatment her daughter got, all the warning signs. There were reports of drive-by shootings done via bicycle as the shooter did not have a drivers license yet. There were 9 killings in the Byrd Park/Randolph/Maymount area in 1994, including an early evening double homicide in a store parking lot. Excellent reporting! This article is an exhample of why CHPN was awarded the best community blog award this year. Does anyone know the story behind an infant was basically boiled to death? I recently saw the autopsy report. Could you run that back a little further? Again, good work chpn! QUESINBERRY Jr. Monte Ralph Colette McEachin, Richmonds newly elected commonwealths attorney, started working in the prosecutors office in 1991. She doesnt want to be around anybody, her mother told me. After going 28+ years without a break, the city has seen no murders in 3 of the last 8 months. Portraying our communities as death sentences for anyone looking to move to an area. About Us I with we could find the person that killed her and honestly wouldnt be surprised if they are not on your list after her murder. Ive lived in Church Hill and on the west end (which doesnt count). A startling picture in the December 1989 issue of Richmond Surroundings, this magazines predecessor, shows a mans body lying in bloody snow on Old Brook Road. There was lots of blame going around, including light jail sentences, environment, segregation and the legacy of enslavement. Thomas McTernan, beat to death on the 300 block of North Harrison after a party at the Kappa Delta Rho house, was a lance corporal in the Marines and the son of a Richmond police detective. RICHMOND, Va. --The startling run of murders in Richmond during the past two weekends has the mayor and police chief making "a plea for peace. She believes theres something more the mental health system couldve done. I, for one, am glad those days are gone. WebBrown's 16-page confession, taped the morning after the Aug. 12 slaying, was summarized for the record Thursday in York Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty to Thomas' murder. Richmonds population hit a low of 197,790 in 2000 before starting to rise in 2010. Baker SMALLWOOD Sr. Michael Marnell What followed is described by one member of the homicide squad as the worst crime scene he saw in his entire career. The Richmond Police Department has said that they can get the data, but that it will cost between $2,500-$3,000 to pull together the pre-1998 information (as it not held electronically). On October 14, 1994, 20-year-old Christopher Goins went to the Gilpin Court apartment of 14-year-old Tamika Jones, who was seven months pregnant with Goins child, and killed Tamikas parents, her 9-year-old sister, Nicole, her 4-year-old brother, David, and her 3-year-old brother, Robert. plans and enthusiasm Someone said things changed because of gentrification? I found that assault numbers seem to be more representative in those instances: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4969/clipboard01le.jpg. ''He asked her not to tell anyone about it, not to tarnish his ministry,'' Esther Brown said. But these spikes - along with a steady drain of human life - have long been a part of living in a killing city, historic homicide reports and records show. Awesome. This was a great rendition of a small portion of how is was back then, the article did not seem negative to me but honest. I moved to Richmond in 89 and trust me, from 1990-1999, violence and crime was like that here in VA! And , there were no witnesses because these guys had a bad habit of killing anybody that spoke up! I rented a house in Union Hill in 1997, and moved back in 2004 when my husband and I bought our house here. Ive been trying to look into a homicide committed on august 14,1987..the victim was Jeff Davis, his killer was terry oconner page, I cant find anything on this particular homicide maybe because it was so long ago but if anyone can point me in a direction. The defendants could receive the death penalty or life in prison. I love being a Richmonder. just because people dont die from a shooting doesnt mean its any safer. My rewards, in 2017, are all related to dancing in and out of the nightmares that dominated Richmonds realities. A 20% drop in assaults/year 2000/2010, a 55% drop in homicides/year/per capita 2000/2010. The same stabbing in Oregon Hill or shooting up by Fairfield that doesnt make the news would be played differently were it to go down in Carytown. Headline back then in the Richmond Times- Dispatch: "Manslaughter and murder soar in city. WebFebruary 17, 1993 Three drug dealers responsible for Richmond's worst murder rampage were sentenced to death by a federal jury yesterday, the first time the federal death GRAPH: Murders per 100,000 1980-2009 (Richmond, Virginia), DATA: Murders per 100,000 1980-2009 (Richmond, Virginia). That and the spike in 1942 are from annexation of county land/population. Can anybody shed some light on why the City has experienced a decrease in homicides since the 1990s? This months look back is from our December 1989 and March 1993 issues. There were more murders that April than in the first 6 months of 2010. Sadly, many of the assault incidents appear to be domestic; conversely, the murders that are not happening in Richmond seem to be the street violence killings. @julestools I specifically had in mind Venable and Pink Street, to 24th and Cedar. The RPDs online Crime Incident Information Center and the Richmond-Times Dispatchs online Homicide Report have data for the following years. The leaders of the notorious Newtowne gang were locked up in 1992 after killing 13 people in a furious month and a half. Were getting beyond what I know & Ill leave it at this: Way less people are being killed in Richmond than ever before. My rewards, in 2017, are all related to dancing in and out the... 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