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Dinesh Kumar woke on a recent morning to find an armed intruder who shot him at least four times and killed his mother. This is his story.
“I jumped off like this,” five-year-old Jamonte shouted, bounding off the slide where just a week ago he nearly strangled and died. The Barrett Terrace Apartment community gathered with firemen, police and building security officers Wednesday to talk about Jamonte’s accident and learn about playground safety. A week earlier, Jamonte was playing on the apartment play structure when he wrapped a purple jump rope around his own neck, tied it to a bar above the slide and tried to land…
Harold Beaulieu and his band of youthful surveyors are taking a novel approach to learning about the residents of North Richmond.
Tickets will be tough to come by when Bill Clinton comes to Richmond.
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and Police Chief Chris Magnus pledged Tuesday to crack down on any banks that are neglecting foreclosed properties in the city. And they said they’ll push harder to enforce a city ordinance that fines banks $1,000 a day for vacant properties with code violations. At a meeting at the Nevin Community Center, Magnus said empty, foreclosed houses have become havens for crime and that the banks and mortgage companies that own them are deliberately obscuring their…
The Richmond Police Department is still holding a suspect in relation to a home invasion turned homicide late last month, but hasn’t formally charged the man yet. Five members of the same family had their world shattered before 4 a.m. Aug 26 at 3234 Moran Ave. as a man fired shots in their house, killing 67-year-old Sushila Prasad and seriously injuring another man who lives there. Police have been holding a 21-year-old suspect since the day of the shooting, but…
Graddye Mae Payne, a longtime matriarch of North Richmond Missionary Baptist Church, went by many names in her 97 years: Mrs. Payne, Dr. G.M. Payne and Auntie Graddye among them. But even though she had no children, she was known to most simply as Mother Payne. Scores of church members and Payne’s loved ones came together Tuesday to remember a woman marked by wisdom, a passion for teaching, and getting deep-down into her Bible. Payne, a former Berkeley resident and…
When Michelle Milam first set up Richmond Police Department’s Facebook profile in January, she couldn’t help but wonder how many people were going to “like” the page. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Richmond Police Facebook page had 634 fans, with 14,711 unique views over the last month. The average Facebook user has only 130 friends, according to the social media site’s statistics. “A big part of it is to build those one-on-one relationships,” said Milam, the department’s crime prevention manager….
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