Safety
Richmond Police homicide detectives arrested three suspects Wednesday on murder charges stemming from a May shooting.
Linetta Cooper said she can no longer live in North Richmond, a place she’s called home for 54 years. “You’ve got people riding around with guns,” Cooper said. “I’m ready to move.” Her remarks came during Sunday service on Sept. 29 at North Richmond’s New Hope Missionary Baptist Church following a recent spate of violence in the neighborhood.
De Anza High School received two racially charged and threatening letters aimed at students, school officials reported.
“Phoenix Rysing,” is a bi-weekly intensive writing workshop, specifically created by RAW Talent and the California Shakespeare Theater to address the trauma of losing loved ones to violence.
The Richmond Project has helped the city better understand what spurs violent crime, and how to stop it.
Since Richmond’s Ceasefire was founded in 2011 homicides have dropped, although violent crime in general has been declining since 2007. But some residents and activists in North Richmond feel that they’re not benefitting from the program.
Faheim Smith, a 30-year-old man from Richmond, was shot and killed Monday night near the Richmond BART station. An assailant shot Smith just after 10 p.m. near the corner of Nevin Avenue and 19th Street, Richmond Police Sergeant Nicole Abetkov said. A BART police officer was the first to find the victim, after hearing a gun shot from the area, said BART’s Deputy Chief of Field Operations Benson Fairow. Smith was bleeding from a single gun shot wound, when the…
Richmond police officers responded to a call, late Sunday night, from a woman saying she was robbed and carjacked at gunpoint on the 2600 block of Duke Avenue, said Richmond police sergeant Nicole Abetkov.
In their short documentary titled “A Confused War,” filmmakers Rachel Waldholz and Mariel Waloff examine Richmond’s unorthodox and surprisingly successful efforts to end a long history of violence. After working on the 26-minute film for more than a year, the two recent graduates of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will debut their master’s thesis project tonight at the East Bay Center for Performing Arts (7 p.m., 339 11th Street, free.) “A Confused War” takes a close look at Richmond’s Office…