Amid “conflicting accounts about who had fired first and who was shooting in self defense”, Jesse Andrew Young pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 9 years in jail for being one of the shooters in the June 11 killing of 14-year-old Deshun Taylor.
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 [...]
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]
