December 29, 2008
2008 East End homicides are magnificently lower (UPDATED)
According to the RPD’s Crime Incident Information site, there were 13 homicides in the 1st Precinct in 2008. This is down from 16 in 2007, 30 in 2006, and 32 in 2005. Three of the 16 were south of the river.
A few details jump out: Like last year, the police were consistently incredibly quick in making arrests for these incidents. (2) Most of the homicides in the East End are listed as CLEARED BY ARREST. (3) The great majority of the homicides occurred in the first half of the year.
UPDATED: Three incidents that are missing from the index are a street shooting of a 19-year-old on 27th Street in November, a matricide from October in Fulton, the shooting of a 5-year-old by a 10-year-old on M Street in August.
The map below indicates all of the homicides in the 1st Precinct in 2008 according to the RPD’s Crime Incident Information site. All of the incidents in the East End, including a few not on the map, are listed below.
East End Homicides 2008
- 01/11/2008
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE
701 N 32ND ST
EXCEPTIONAL CLEARANCE, PROSECUTION DECLINED
robber killed on 32nd Street (CHPN 1/12/08) - 01/25/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
2208 HILDRETH ST
CLEARED BY ARREST - 01/30/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
300 N 25TH ST
CLEARED BY ARREST
man found shot to death in 300 block of 25th (CHPN 1/30/08) - 02/04/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
2519 FORD AVE
CLEARED BY ARREST
man wanted in deaths of cousins (CHPN 2/6/08) - 02/11/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
1900 R ST
02/11/2008
ACTIVE
murder on R Street (CHPN 2/12/08) - 03/15/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
2101 N 21ST ST
CLEARED BY ARREST - 03/18/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
2387 AMBROSE ST
CLEARED BY ARREST - 04/02/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
1623 SPOTSYLVANIA ST
CLEARED BY ARREST - 06/11/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
2200 FAIRFIELD AVE
CLEARED BY ARREST
14-year-old Deshun Taylor shot on Fairfield Avenue (UPDATED) (CHPN 6/11/08) - 07/24/2008
MURDER/NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER
2230 CREIGHTON ROAD
CLEARED BY ARREST
Henrico man picked up for suspicious infant death (CHPN 7/24/08) - 10/4/08
5300 CAMPBELL AVENUE
man kills mother on Campbell Avenue (GFN 10/4/08) - 11/1/2008
1300 27TH STREET
Fatal shooting on 27th Street (CHPN 11/2/08)
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This is fantastic news! I wonder how on earth these significant results were achieved without Prince Rodney Monroe and his tax payer purchased farce of a VCU Degree.
This shows how community policing is making a difference. The police encourage neighborhood involvement and our involvement is producing results. Never hestiate to contact the police if you have a problem, they want you to call.
It does show how community policing can make a diffence; however the numbers are still far to high. . . . programs are needed to get our youth turned around bring an end to the unnecessary violence and hatred that is permeating the neighborhoods and especially the young people. . .
Blessings and hope everyone have a wonderful New Year!
I beleave this list is incorrect; it does not list the recent murder occurring on N. 26th street that is yet unsolved.
damn, you’re right.
fatal shooting on 27th Street (CHPN 11/2/08)
It is great news that the murder rate is decreasing in our fair city. It shows that the corruption is slowly being weeded out of the jails, the courts and public housing, much thanks to everyone committed to rooting out corruption.
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