This spike has city leaders asking the same questions that generations of mayors, council members and police brass have in this deadly southern city. * Paper Moon tried to open on 18th Street Subscribe In the first 28 years for which there is monthly data available, there was not a month in Richmond without someone being killed. The U.S. Census population estimate for 2018 was 228,783. I cant locate it now, but murders in Richmond exceeded all the surrounding counties combined. He then shot Thomas to death, doused her body with charcoal lighter fluid and set it afire, he said. 2000 through 2010: SMITH, Christopher Bryan Unlike so many of the drug-related homicides that involved killers and victims living dangerous lifestyles in rough neighborhoods, many of the Golden Years victims lived good lives in decent neighborhoods. Goins escaped the scene of the shooting and went on the run, leading to a manhunt by Richmond Police and the FBI that stretched from Virginia to New York. Thanks for taking the time to do this. So of course the stats would look like blacks were just killing each other and nothing else happened as far as crime. And I especially remember the case of Tamika Jones because we were the same age and I remember how older men were always trying to pick up young girls my age or a little older. I have a few ideas. WebIn the early afternoon of January 1, 2006, the bodies of Kathryn, Bryan, Stella, and Ruby Harvey were found dead in the basement of their burning house in the Woodland Heights At least I know the police are just around the corner and will be at my door in less than 5 minutes if I call (and Ive called before). Eric Ernest WebIn February 1993, James Roane, Cory Johnson, and Richard Tipton were convicted in the Eastern District of Virginia for an array of criminal activity, including several capital murders, arising out of drug-trafficking operations in and near Richmond. That would be hard to believe. A startling picture in the December 1989 issue of Richmond Surroundings, this magazines predecessor, shows a mans body lying in bloody snow on Old Brook Road. The Briley brothers were a gang of drug dealers who permiated the Church Hill area and were responsible for murders, robberies, assualts and stealing in general. No, the Fulton Hill Hustlers were not Crips or Bloods, but I think they left at least 10 bodies in their wake. * Disney tried to open a theme park in VA They say its like night and day between then and now. Great reporting, John. Prosecutors alleged they operated a cocaine ring in Richmond and Virginia's eastern Henrico County. This is where the community blogs (and the police department) make a difference in getting information out to areas. Police justify fat budgets to fight such wars but is that worth the destruction it causes? The house next door was owned by the notorious slumlord Stan Smith. TIPTON. Shockoe Bottom has not been the same since the murders. HOLMBERG: 25 years after the deadliest invasion since the Civil War Jake, Weve definitely come a along way, despite the setbacks, but we are only about half way there. I think things are much better than they used to be. Movies and the hype of gangsta rap did help each. Local news for the East End of Richmond, Virginia from Union Hill to Fulton, St. Johns to Fairfield. Cardwell told the judge she shared LaRuffa's "disappointment with the juvenile justice system," but added, "this defendant represents an extreme danger to the community," the T-D reported. WebRICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Richmond Police are investigating after a woman was found dead with a gunshot wound in Gillies Creek Park. * invasion of Haiti Learn how your comment data is processed. I did not live in Richmond in the 90s. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Serial world record breaker David Rush reclaimed a Guinness World Records title when he threw and caught a fire sword 135 times in 1 minute. I am curious to hear what your opinion is on why the homicide rate went from 161 in 1994 to 37 last year. a lot of folks were disappointed in me when they found out about my gang affiliations. I was actually warned by the police to be careful because these guys monitor the police channel and know who is calling the police! Just realized that the current 48 day stretch without a homicide in the city is the longest since at least 1980. Thomas McTernan, beat to death on the 300 block of North Harrison after a party at the Kappa Delta Rho house, was a lance corporal in the Marines and the son of a Richmond police detective. I was around in the 90s and remember many of these murders. Horgas was pondering this question the next day when he came across a teletype alert from Richmond that made his hands shake. Even the locator map of murders back then looked remarkably similar to the ones of today - the same festering pockets of concentrated poverty that continue today. Jake Are you saying that the RPD is not reporting murders? THOMAS, Richard A child psychiatrist testified that, starting at an early age, Monique was violent to small animals, including cutting off the ears of a kitten, killing a litter of puppies, throwing a puppy off a porch resulting in a broken leg, and placing puppies on a hot stove. The increasing ratio number shows a yearly count of assaults that is falling much more slowly than the number of homicides. I am assuming the date is the date of her death? I, for one, am glad those days are gone. They face the death penalty for convictions of murder in the furtherance of a continuing criminal drug enterprise. Over half of them were gunned down while the others were doing the shooting and are spending the rest of their lives behind bars. This was a level of violence virtually unimaginable today: 2 would-be robbers of a Henrico jewelry store were killed in a shoot-out with the police, 2 Chesterfield teens robbed and killed a car salesman, a man killed 2 elderly women in 2 different retirement homes, an infant was basically boiled to death, two masked gunmen opened fire in the parking lot at 5PM on a Sunday evening on Meadow Street, one single block of Afton Avenue recorded 5 separate killings over the course of the year, an entire family was slaughtered in Gilpin Court, and there was a triple killing in Sugar Bottom. my first apartment was in church hill in 97. its every bit as dangerous as this article says it was. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Was she a VCU student? Looking at the map or list of incidents from 1994 in comparison to recent years and one thing really jumps out: Byrd Park/Randolph was apparently a very different place back in the bad ol days. Thats well above the clearance rate for many cities our size. I dont think that it is under-reporting, per se, so much as just limited media and a sort of geographic bias. I bet thats a typo, Richmond CA has taken our old spot at the top of those lists. ''I guess I just got tired of it and, you know, like I said, there was my father being a minister and everything and there's pressure on us anyway,'' he said. Just because you see people coming in with gunshot/stab wounds doesnt mean it isnt less than it has been in the past. By the early '50s, the public discussion of the subject - and the sensitivities surrounding it - had it sounding very much like the discussions of today. Mental health specialists began seeing her at age four for her aggressiveness, hyperactivity, pulling out hair, smearing feces. Monique was given 55 years. And , there were no witnesses because these guys had a bad habit of killing anybody that spoke up! Richmonds body count had topped out over 100 for the previous 6 years and the city had already earned a dangerous reputation by the mid-1980s (if not earlier). It brought back a lot of cringes, but relief that those days are hopefully gone for good. Well-done!! I lived in it, through it and because of Gods grace made it. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Animal control officers in New Jersey said seven sheep found running loose after an apparent slaughterhouse escape will have a new permanent home at a sanctuary. Brown's 16-page confession, taped the morning after the Aug. 12 slaying, was summarized for the record Thursday in York Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty to Thomas' murder. RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Richmond Police are investigating after a woman was found dead with a gunshot wound in Gillies Creek Park. The reason why we have questions of mayoral power now are directly related to that. The prosecutor, the defense attorney, Moniques mom and others wanted her locked up in a mental hospital instead of prison. I then went to Franklin elementary to Elkhart Middle then to George Wythe High. (update 2/1/2015). The Richmond VA murder/homicide rate for Brown had taken Thomas to the woods near Jones Mill Pond along the Colonial Parkway with a bag containing a sheet, a can of charcoal lighter fluid, a cigarette lighter and a 9mm pistol, he told York Investigator J.E. * North vs Robb vs Coleman for Senate RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ A 21-year-old man who authorities say wiped out his girlfriends family because he was enraged she had become pregnant was convicted Tuesday of five counts of murder. But wasnt nothi g like the Gilpin court massacre I remember that like it was yesterday, how ol boy ran in the house and killed everything moving. The leaders of the notorious Newtowne gang were locked up in 1992 after killing 13 people in a furious month and a half. Any one or two of these incidents might happen in a given year, but that year seemed to see it all (including a triple killing on 31st Street in Sugar Bottom, and twin killings on 30th/O Street and 30th/P Streets less than 24 hours apart). .please.. You can go to the RTD online archive at http://www.timesdispatch.com/archive/ and search older articles. Ive been in my house 13 years and God-willing Ill be here for many more. If anyone reading this has a compelling interest and a happy checkbook, please contact me. Yes, not all of the non-fatal incidents make the big media. This article is an exhample of why CHPN was awarded the best community blog award this year. JohnAt the risk of putting more work on your shoulders, would be interesting to see if the ratio of aggravated assaults (which the RPD set aside as a notable category) to homicides shows any more stability than your previous assault:homicide ratio did. It was rough, to say the least. Police arrived at the 4300 block of Murderpedia has thousands of hours of work behind it. Postal Service stopped mail delivery to Whitcomb Court until ordered back on the rounds by a Federal judge. Spend a day in the ER at MCV and then you tell me honestly how you feel. Does anyone know the story behind an infant was basically boiled to death? Results of a DNA test released at Thursday's trial said that it is 99.99 percent certain that Hugh Brown was the father of the fetus the medical examiner discovered in Thomas' body. The drug dealers cannot operate if there is no market for their wares. Unquestionably things have improved, but murders in Shockoe Bottom, shootings and stabbings in the projects and the recent line of fire killing on Belvidere only comfirm in many peoples minds (mine included, that Richmond is not a safe (enough) place to visit or live, especially at night. She believes theres something more the mental health system couldve done. Message in a bottle travels more than 185 miles in Australia. His first two sentences cast doubt on the veracity of the homicide numbers, thats what Im responding to. Many of the kids in this gang were 15 or 16 years old. WebRichmond homicide totals since 1957 breaking Richmond homicide totals since 1957 Oct 14, 2016 0 Richmond homicide totals since 1957, compiled from data from Richmond WebStories on Richmond murder made both Americas Most Wanted and got notice in December 5 piece in USA Today. The count dipped back into the 70s, jumped towards 100 in 2004, and has fallen dramatically the past 3 years. I was 17 in 1994-5 and ran all over those streets. James Briley executed for killing a pregnant Richmond woman and her 5-year-old son. CHANDLER Jr. Richard Marc George Adrian I get that, but in lieu of hard numbers, Im looking at the homicide rate as a proxy for the amount of general violence in the city. But homicide reports in the '30s, '40s and '50s were also thick with ice picks and knives and fatal beatings attributed to a variety of instruments, including fists. I found that assault numbers seem to be more representative in those instances: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4969/clipboard01le.jpg. The house we bought was not on the market and a friend at the time turned us on to it. They would collectively be called the Golden Years cases. Graduating two years late. I wonder what happened to her and her little sister Kenya? Federal authorities accused the gang members of 11 murders during a 45-day span in January and February of 1992. In the past 366 months, only 3 have passed without a killing, and all 3 have come in the last 8 months. I dont know about that: your link is to a report about a stabbing in Oregon Hill, which seems to disprove your point about things not being reported. It was rough, a lot of the city was physically deteriorated, the downtown traffic count on a Saturday morning was about 5 cars per hour and the council was in disarray. most of us from the Clan have all done time or is still locked up. Hugh Brown's father, Joseph Hugh Brown, directed the meeting at his office in the Church of Christ on Dill Road in Richmond, Esther Brown said. Yes, Chuck Richardson went down for heroin, but how does compare to Mayor Youngs arrest? She told Detective McTernan that Mrs. Cooke came home and found her inside the home and confronted her. heard drivebys sitting out front on N 24th/Clay. With at least 70 murders mostly packed into a few dense areas, specific streets along the Jeff Davis corridor were awash with blood: Afton Avenue had 5 killings, Lynehaven Avenue had 7, the area around Minefee/Harwood/Southlawn had 6. This is good. I really would like to know more info on the murder of Harold David Robertson Jr. I can ride down some streets and still remember how it was in my mind. There were anomalies a fatal stabbing in a the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant on Grace Street, the murders of 2 elderly women in retirement homes, a body found in the canal by Tredegar Street but overwhelmingly the stories from 1994 are those of young black men found dead or dying on streets like Idlewood Avenue, Hull Street, and Afton Avenue. ''She was madly in love with him,'' said Casandra Chappell, Thomas' cousin. so many drugs coming through the area. WebNo one was killed in Richmond in June 2010. Id be interested in seeing Aggravated Assault numbers for the past 10 years (or more) if anyone reading has access. The violence peaked in August 1994 when 25 killings left someone dead almost every day of that month. If you have any information, contact Henrico Police at (804) 501-5000 or our Cold Case Investigators at (804) 501-5304. Out of curiosity, I crunched these numbers into the annual murder rate (FBI uses incidents per 100,000 population). John, This was a great idea for several reasons. It seems that to be able to say that certain areas once had these incidents but do not any longer would be a useful way of marking the changes in the city. Turns out that you have to go back to 1951-1961 to find years with per capita numbers as low as 2008 (which is still better than most years from the 1930s and 1940s, interestingly). Sadly, many of the assault incidents appear to be domestic; conversely, the murders that are not happening in Richmond seem to be the street violence killings. ''I just got upset and I reacted.''. This was a great rendition of a small portion of how is was back then, the article did not seem negative to me but honest. Here are the source population and homicide numbers for Richmond 1934-2010. victims are at MCV doesnt mean the incident happened in Richmond. The prosecution asserted the gang sold huge quantities of crack in one Richmond neighborhood. After my parents divorce we moved uptown. The yearly toll stayed over 100 for 10 straight years, hitting 161 in 1994 and 140 in 1997. "It's difficult to understand, frankly, how one human being can do that to another human being," he said. Richmond had 52 murders in 1968 and 89 in 1972, when the city's population was 243,000 after the big annexation of South Side. In addition to the homicides in the city, there was an I tell this to anyone who look at me sideways about why I chose to live in the area I grew up in. ''I would anticipate that they would appeal on that,'' said Jake Smith, York commonwealth's attorney. The defendants could receive the death penalty or life in prison. It would be interesting, and I think more informative. Hugh Brown had told his girlfriend that they were going to run off together and get married, Brown said in his confession. There have been a number of From his perspective he sees alot more than may actually have been reported to the police. Quite a few died. But it appears no one thinks 40 years in solitary confinement is going to help or reform one of the most disturbed young women this city has ever seen. Wow, I never knew that this report existed. III, Charles Stanard Hopefully thats something hyper-local media can change. Lafayette POYNER. Habit, I think. I rarely visit ( I am cross-country), because those sights, smells, and sounds do not go away. John Virginia Ross was also found murdered that year in another retirement high-rise in Northside on the 1600 block of Fourth Avenue. Most of the violence of the 90s was tied to the drug trade. The six-woman, six-man U.S. District Court jury deliberated 11 hours over two days before returning the verdicts on the 17th day of the trial. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of shooting and stabbing victims wind up at MCV. Even had a bullet shot through our living room window but never found the slug. Fairfield court / north side highland park areas, south side Jeff D turnpike / afton ave. But once houses were being renovated things turned around. Someone said things changed because of gentrification? The minimum Brown could serve is 20 years in prison. Colette McEachin, Richmonds newly elected commonwealths attorney, started working in the prosecutors office in 1991. Copyright 2023 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. QUESINBERRY Jr. Monte Ralph To add one more macabre item to this horrible year in April, 1994 Timothy Spencer, aka the Southside Strangler for his murderous rampage on the Southside in 1987, was put to death. WebRICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ A 21-year-old man who authorities say wiped out his girlfriends family because he was enraged she had become pregnant was convicted Tuesday of five Susan Hellams, a neurosurgeon, had RICHMOND, Va. --The startling run of murders in Richmond during the past two weekends has the mayor and police chief making "a plea for peace. That years spike in killings did not arrive suddenly. Richmonds population hit a low of 197,790 in 2000 before starting to rise in 2010. There were 9 killings in the Byrd Park/Randolph/Maymount area in 1994, including an early evening double homicide in a store parking lot. Great job! Unfortunately the RPDs online system doesnt break out Aggravated Assaults from Assaults and I dont have the desire to dig for it. Forensics, community policing, and overall professionalism have made huge differences. John, youre too modest. So many memories growing up from all over those areas. In being a regional paper, the T-D would have to post incident reports from Caroline to Dinwiddie and that would take up a chunk of the paper and a lot of resources. Thanks for the superlative for Maymont/ByrdPark/Randolph. The sad truth is that if you are middle or upper class, you have almost no chance of being a victim of violent crime. Before French there were other developers who were investigated by the FBI. Id add to Houdons comment the fact that MSM doesnt believe positive news sells enough papers/hits to justify spending much time on it. Is my perception that far off? Three years after Caroline Cookes murder, Richmond police detective Jan McTernan found the killer through a fingerprint on a car of spray starch inside found inside Mrs. Cookes home in the citys sedate Museum District. People who are from Richmond and its suburbs cant shake off these 10-20 year old images, reported above. Excellent reporting! More facts: through the first six months of 2010, RVA had only 19 of the 51 killings in the area (and its 25 of 57 as of today). great job on doing your homework about richmond , back in the days, it was crazy back then, i was a part of all the madness in Richmond back then. \When they were finally caught and jailed, their mother said, they was good boys, whenever the electricity went out they always came home with a generator. They made a well publicised prison break before they were executed. Everyone wore shower caps (whenever they were shown on the news, they always had on shower caps) and we turned off all the lights to make sure there was enough electricity for the deed. 2. just because people dont die from a shooting doesnt mean its any safer. * George Allan takes office Almost every rib was not only broken, but shattered. White homicides often got more in-depth treatment in the news than the usual few paragraphs for black victims. The Oct. 14 rampage, in which Christopher Goins girlfriend was shot nine times but survived, was the worst mass murder in Richmonds Murder rate per 100k people: 19.47. Oregon Hill reported a story of direct concern to that neighborhood and the RPD gave supporting details. If someone shows up shot or stabbed at the hospital, the police are automatically brought in. The results are pretty striking, even adjusted for population. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Authorities in Maine said one bison remained on the loose Tuesday after three of the animals were seen running loose on a road Monday. But the black-on-black violent crime problem was stark and bluntly reported on 75 years ago: "Why were there 11 times as many homicides committed by Negroes in Richmond last year than by white persons?" Nine of the killings fell under the continuing criminal enterprise statute. Back in 2003-2007 there were 7 killings within 5 blocks of my house (almost 2/year). Richardson he feared he would shame his family by having a child out of wedlock with 17-year-old Gwendolyn C. Thomas. Here is a graphic of the worst 10 in 2009. The decline since then has been steady and amazing, dropping down to 32 in 2008, and then spiking up more recently to 61 last year, with perhaps even a larger number this year. We are able to see an area with more realistic eyes. An article in todays Richmond Times-Dispatch reports event lower numbers for 2008 and 2009 than I was given (36 and 41): Richmond reported 39 homicides for all of 2009, which was higher than 2008s 32 slayings but still low when viewed historically. Drugs.. lots of em those years. In 1936, Richmond had 29 slayings in a city of 188,000. Its extremely unlikely shell get out this time and any year soon. Legalized drugs mean that people dont have to resort to violence to settle disputes. Wow, amazing work! This is way outside of my capability to self-fund. Drugs passing through all the time, saw an attempted murder outside, a brother beating on his sister (different incident), us being harassed even trying to get in and out of our cars even with them walking right up to us. Not all blacks raised in poor crime ridden areas are products of their environment. This is a proven fact. Excellent! as a member of the infamous Poison Clan Posse i saw first hand some of the violence that took place back then and i can confirm what you guys are saying. ''He asked her not to tell anyone about it, not to tarnish his ministry,'' Esther Brown said. SAVINO Richmond Police discovered her naked body lying on the bed. Im told the judge in the case ordered that any member of the parole board considering Monique for parole must review the crime scene photos before making a decision. More than a dozen of them. Despite all the madness though, i loved RIchmond. 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