Safety
While police are saying that a longstanding feud between Central Richmond’s Deep-C gang and the Project Trojans gang in North Richmond may be heating up, a number of groups in the city are trying to address systemic violence by engaging the community to encourage non-violence. Operation Richmond, a faith-based collaborative organization that promotes non-violence, is organizing an event called “Making Noise for Peace” on April 23—a day before Easter—in response to the recent spate of shootings and homicides in unincorporated North Richmond.
Police are saying that some of the violence that has been brewing in the city recently, which has left three dead and four wounded over the last two weeks, seems to be part of an escalating feud between gangs in North and Central Richmond.
In the wake of a series of apparent gang-related shootings and homicides, police have responded by increasing the number of officers patrolling the city’s streets and are working more closely with other local police departments who may have information related to the ongoing violence.
About 20 people gathered in front of the El Cerrito offices of Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia late Friday to protest a transfer of funds away from an urban ecology program.
North Richmond’s crime rate was on the decline before last week’s deadly shootings.
Two men were shot, one fatally, while standing on Third Street on Wednesday night.
Ervin Coley III, 21, worked as a gardener in his community.
All three of the city’s homicide victims this year were shot and killed in South Richmond, find out how the city and the community are responding.
The poorly maintained Las Deltas Housing project could impact the future of North Richmond.