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Richmond 2011: The year in review
2011 was quite a year, to borrow a favorite phrase from longtime resident Sims Thompson, in “our fair city.” I know that’s vague, but it’s tough to turn a pithy phrase that sums up a year in a vibrant, bustling and changing city. We had tragedy and triumph, tumult and harmony. Alliances and rivalries. Echoes of the past and glimmers from the future.
Read MoreMarquis Hamilton: Recollections of a life lost
Marquis Hamilton was a 20-year-old father of two. On Nov. 25, he became the fifth young adult homicide victim in the tiny neighborhood of North Richmond this year. Before that, a RichmondConfidential.org reporter got to know him a bit, and wants you to know him too.
Read MoreNorth Richmond mourns Marquis Hamilton
Mourners and clergy remembered Hamilton, 20, as a fun-loving prankster who snatched the bed covers off his seven brothers and five sisters and borrowed friends’ bicycles without their knowledge – only to return them with a laugh.
Read MoreNorth Richmond man slain, city police on alert
Marquis Hamilton was smiling when he coaxed a store cashier into giving him a cigarette before wandering back to the street corner a few ticks past 8 p.m. on Friday night. Moments later, after an exchange of rapid gunfire at the corner of Market Avenue and Fifth Street, Hamilton was back.
Read MoreWoman found dead in Richmond restaurant
A 30-year-old woman was found dead in a local restaurant Tuesday night in what police are investigating as a homicide. Officers responding to a 7:30 p.m. call found Jensy Romero dead inside Angie’s Restaurant and Bakery in the 12000 block of San Pablo Avenue, police said. An employee discovered the body and placed the emergency…
Read MoreAdvocates call on community to end violence
There were fewer bodies in the audience at Thursday night’s Office of Neighborhood Safety meeting than have been laid out in blood on Richmond’s streets thus far this year. But although organizers said they were discouraged by the turnout at the Dynamics of Peace forum, those who did show up at the Nevin Community Center…
Read MoreSlain Richmond teen mourned at St. Cornelius Parish
Elvis Alfaro-Escobar, 17, was remembered Friday as a music-loving prankster and recent graduate of Richmond High School.
Read MoreFuneral for slain Richmond teen on Friday
Elvis Escobar Alfaro, 17, was shot multiple times at around 9:45 p.m. near the corner of Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. He was pronounced dead after being airlifted to John Muir Medical Center.
Read MoreTwo killed, including young mother, in central Richmond
One victim was Rose McFadden, a 25-year-old mother of four who was a passenger in a car. The car’s driver was Antoine Williams Jr., 24, police said.
Read MoreRichmond, North Richmond, to gather tonight for anti-crime meeting
With the city and its unincorporated North Richmond neighbor still in the throes of a month wracked with violence, city and county leaders are inviting residents to community meeting tonight at 4 p.m.
Read MoreMan shot, killed Wednesday near downtown
A 20-year-old man was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon near Nevin Park, and police are scrambling to apprehend a suspect.
Read MorePart 6: North Richmond’s unceasing struggle
From 2005 to 2010, at least 28 homicides occurred in the county area of North Richmond alone, an area with a population that has averaged about 2,300 people.
Read MoreAnti-violence forum draws Richmond leaders, raises concerns
Richmond has seen a dramatic decrease in deadly gun violence in recent years, but anti-violence advocates and city officials believe only a sustained, multi-partner commitment to violence prevention and intervention in the coming years can make these gains permanent.
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