Lt.Martin Harrison’s October report (PDF) for Sector 113 is now available and contains this detailed nugget:

FFI officers and detectives from Narcotics executed a search warrant at 2314 Selden Street. FFI officers had to use the ram to breach the door. Once inside the officers were able to locate the suspect, Antonio MORRIS, BM, age 19, who was charged with the following: PWID Crack cocaine, PWID Cocaine within a 1000 ft of school, Poss. of a firearm while in poss. of crack cocaine, Poss. of firearm with obliterated serial number, and Trespass on RRHA property. The leaseholder, Natasha GRAY, BF, age 26, was arrested for the following: PWID Crack cocaine, Poss of firearm of firearm by felon X2, Poss of firearm while in poss. of crack cocaine, PWID cocaine within a 1000ft of school, and poss. of firearm with a obliterated serial number. Two .38 special firearms and 7.5 grams of crack cocaine were recovered. (Titan Tiger .38 cal revolver serial number: 0071-168 and .38 cal. Revolver, model RG39, serial number obliterated, black with brown handle).

Firefighters responded to reports of a car entirely engulfed in flames at 2325 Phaup Street in Fairfield Court just after 7AM this morning. Neighbors describe hearing 2 small explosions just prior to the burning.

In Cut Short: The story of Deshun Taylor, 1994-2008, Style Weekly looks at the details surrounding the June 11 shooting of Deshun Taylor:

As Richmond continues to garner headlines for its dwindling murder rate and the success of former Police Chief Rodney Monroe (who left last week for Charlotte, N.C.), Taylor’s death serves up a dose of reality. Richmond, for all its recent success, still has its concentrated poverty, its violent crime, its long, hot summers in the projects.

A shooting on the 2200 block of Fairfield Avenue just before 2:00PM has seriously injured a juvenile male. The young man, a 7th grade student at MLK Middle School, “has been taken to VCU Medical Center with life-threatening injuries”. Police are offering an instant $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. [via]

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Style Weekly’s Suspensions Outnumber Students at City School takes a look at the 485 suspensions last year at award-winning Fairfield Court Elementary School, a school with only 398 students.

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Neighborhood schools Fairfield Court Elementary and George Mason Elementary were among the 4 Richmond schools named today as winners of the Governor’s Award for Educational Excellence. [via]

“Students in these schools are soaring far beyond the minimum requirements of the Standards of Learning and No Child Left Behind,” said Governor Kaine. “It speaks to the strength of public education in the Commonwealth that the 89 schools that have earned this distinction include schools in rural, suburban and urban communities and schools in every part of the state.”

According to the RPD’s Crime Incident Information site, there were 16 homicides in the 1st Precinct in 2007. This is down from 30 homicides in 2006 and 32 homicides in 2005.

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This week’s Mayor’s Vision Newsletter, A Holiday Message from the Mayor describes what Mayor Wilder found on a surpirse visit to Fairfield Court Elementary School: “a school in the shadow of public housing units portraying to all who would care that yes, these young people can learn. They can show that it doesn’t matter where you were born or your economic status - you can achieve and overcome and become outstanding contributing citizens.”

The next meeting in the process of nominating the Fairmount area for both the Virginia and National Registries of Historic Places (and follow-up to last February’s meeting) took place Tuesday night at EDI. Ann Andrus and Kristin Kirchen of the Department of Historic Resources presented information about the application process so far and opened the floot for public comment.

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Today’s RTD has a long look at Fairfield Elementary School, School is an SOL success.

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“Average annual incomes in housing authority projects such as Gilpin, Whitcomb and Creighton courts are between $8,000 and $10,000, according to the latest RRHA statistics. In the comparably affluent Mosby Court, average incomes are above $11,000.” [via]

Following last week’s Sector 111 stats, here are year-to-date crime stats Sector 113 and the individual neighborhoods — and they are looking good…

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