The media is reporting another fatal shooting near Creighton this afternoon: Police responded to a report of a man shot and suffering possibly life-threatening injuries in the 1800 block of Creighton Road at the Eastlawn Shopping Center, police said. Police have a large portion of a parking lot outside a Family Dollar store, a hair [...]
The RTD has info on a non-fatal shooting last night in the 3300 block of Bunche Place in Creighton Court: The victim, 29, told police that he and a friend were walking in the neighborhood when they saw two other men come out of an apartment and walk toward them. At that point, the victim, [...]
RRHA’s public housing communities provide housing for more than 10,000 people in 11 family public housing developments and eight elderly housing buildings throughout the city.
The RRHA will use $10.8 million in stimulus funds to renovate public housing in Gilpin, Creighton, Whitcomb, Mosby, and Fulton. The scheduled work includes installation of more efficient windows and kitchen and bathroom renovations, and should begin in the next 120 days. [via]
Garnell Stevenson was sentenced to 30 years in prison with 15 suspended for the killing of 1-year-old Javon Deleo last summer in Creighton.
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School teacher and author Loretta Watson appeared yesterday on Virginia This Morning speaking about her book of poetry There is Hope and the Shirley Coleman Creighton Court Scholarship Fund.
Richmond’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities is looking for volunteers to coach the 2008 Football Season at Creighton Court Community Center. Coaching positions are open for Peewees, Midgets and Juniors football teams. The fall football season will run Aug.4-Nov.30. Contact Deborah Day at (804)646-4511 for more info.
Richmond Police have arrested Henrico County resident Garnell Stevenson, 24, in the death of a one-year-old child at around 1PM today in the 2200 block of Creighton Road. Officially, the cause of death has not been identified, but police are investigating the death as “suspicious”. It has been alleged that he killed the infant “for [...]
Following up on her 2007 novel My Mamma, My Teacha, Loretta Watson has reprinted There Is Hope, her 1996 book of poetry. For every copy sold, one dollar goes toward the Shirley Coleman – Loretta Watson Creighton Court Scholarship Fund and will help a child from Creighton Court pay for a portion of his/her college [...]
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.
Around 3:30PM yesterday, two men that were not residents of the Creighton complex were shot to death in a drive-by shooting in the 2000 block of Creighton Road. [via]
The folks at Pharrout and neighborhood resident Daniel (aka Farrell IT), building on an idea by Jon at River City Rapids, have put together Vacant Richmond, a new way to find out about and comment on the vacant housing around the neighborhood and the city.
“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]
A 21-month-old toddler, Kamau Oliver II, died yesterday morning in an apartment fire (apparently started by his 4 and 6 year-old brothers playing with a cigarette lighter) in the 2000 block of Creighton Road. [via]
