Hank alerted us to to a little situation early Friday morning on 23rd Street. It seems that a man was walking down the street in the middle of the night with a ladder. Not inherently criminal, but suspicious (and something that we take very personally).
Richmond Police have arrested and charged a 15-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School student with killing Elaine Bowens last week on the 1300 block of North 23rd Street. Another boy, age unknown, was also arrested on Tuesday and are investigators seeking to arrest a young adult in the shooting. [via][via]
Another shooting that didn’t make the tv/newspaper, a drive-by with no injuries, still impacts the people in the area.
Just a block a way from last weeks shooting, Dorez Eric Gail was shot to death in the 1400 block of 22nd Street at around 3pm yesterday. Police are looking for the gunman and witnesses. [via]
How do you feel about 4-way stop signs? As a follow-up, how easy/difficult should it be to get them at an intersection? How many neighbors should need to call before this happens and should the immediate neighborhood have a voice?
Activate Richmond is an all-volunteer organization that makes it easy to get involved in community volunteering.
Neighborhood stop sign vandalization makes the RTD’s Street Beat.
Get lowdown and schedule for this weekend’s Irish Festival on F.T.Rea’s SLANTblog.
Last night at about 5:15pm, a man riding a bicycle on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge was hit by a minivan and dragged more than 200 feet between the van and a concrete wall. The unidentified man man was being treated last night for life-threatening injuries; a report on his condition was not [...]
Richmond Police responded to the 1300 block of North 23rd street around 1:30 AM last night, to find a 56-year-old woman who had been shot. Police are looking for a maroon Ford Taurus seen leaving the area. [via]
The 900 block of 25th Street, home to Sunny Supermarket and the mystery rainbow building, saw 2 empty houses demolished recently.
An empty, for-sale house at 20th and R Streets burned dramatically last night.
We’ve gotten an unofficial report of a mini crimewave on the 700 blocks of 23rd and 24th Streets. One residence had their shed broken into twice in 24 hours on March 9/10, the house directly behind that was broken into a couple of days after later, and a neighbor two doors down was broken into [...]
The appeal hearing for the ABC license for the convenience store at 2300 Venable Street has been set for April 4th at 3:30 pm. The appeal will be before the 3 newly appointed ABC board. This hearing differs from the 1/26 hearing which was before a single hearing officer.
The Richmond commonwealth’s attorney’s office has sent a “letter of declination” to the police department indicating that it found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by officer Chester Roberts, who wounded armed suspect James Singleton during an attempted robbery of a Family Dollar store. [via]
