BLOODGOOD. Interesting walk back in time. WebThe murder clearance rate hit an all-time low in 2020, and data analyzed by a nonprofit shows that trend continued last year. We knew what areas to stay away from (Gilpin Court, Whitcomb Court, Fairfield, etc.) The 31 homicides showing in the RPD database show no killings in May, Aug, and Dec 2008. 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. Im thinking assaults and other crimes are much higher here also. I, for one, am glad those days are gone. Why do I still live here? After going 28+ years without a break, the city has seen no murders in 3 of the last 8 months. You have to pay to read the rest of the article. Out of curiosity, I crunched these numbers into the annual murder rate (FBI uses incidents per 100,000 population). Each of these quiet months has come in the last 8 months, and 2 of them have come in 2010. Her baby and her relationship with Hugh Brown were the focus of her dreams about the future, according to family members interviewed after the trial. Since then, Richmond has also had the quiet months of February 2010 and June 2010. and got used to hearing gun shots and running away. Brown, 27, of Mechanicsville, the son of a Richmond preacher, had told York Investigator J.E. I think things are much better than they used to be. Richmond was known as The Murder Capital back then. While I was putting this together, I kept wishing that I could hand it over to a real writer to see what would come out. We had another one who was shot mulitiple times earlier in the week, yet the bullets missed every vital organ and the victim lives. 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. heard drivebys sitting out front on N 24th/Clay. And they eventually pinned four of the murders on a schizophrenic homeless man named Leslie Leon Burchart, one of the strangest and most pitiful humans I have ever interviewed. In addition to the homicides in the city, there was an amplified smear of of violence across the region that year, with multiple accounts of drive-by shootings and gunmen firing into crowds making the newspaper (including the article above, on shots fired into a crowd gathered around an ambulance). Was she a VCU student? John, youre too modest. And, unfortunately, I remember several friends and acquaintances that got involved as users. Curious about and fascinated by Richmonds shockingly violent semi-recent history, I thought to look and see where all of this killing was taking place. WebInteractive chart of the Richmond, Virginia murder rate (i.e. just because people dont die from a shooting doesnt mean its any safer. Last year the body count in the East End was 1/3 of what it was in 2004. On Feb. 19, 2021, police approached TMar Green, 23, a I moved to Richmond in 1992 to go to Virginia Union University. She had been strangled with a ligature and ratchet-type device. Local news for the East End of Richmond, Virginia from Union Hill to Fulton, St. Johns to Fairfield. 0. Police justify fat budgets to fight such wars but is that worth the destruction it causes? 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?" I was one of the reporters covering their stories for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Federal authorities accused the gang members of 11 murders during a 45-day span in January and February of 1992. When I stated I was moving here, and to Church Hill, Richmonders tried to warn me away from this area. Copyright 2023 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. For reported, I assumed that he was referring to the media, not the police. I cant locate it now, but murders in Richmond exceeded all the surrounding counties combined. Learn how your comment data is processed. I post hard data showing that RIchmond is safer than any time in the past 60 years and your response its not a safe enough place to live or visit? The results are pretty striking, even adjusted for population. What is the basis of YOUR comparison?? This is where the community blogs (and the police department) make a difference in getting information out to areas. But many of the homicides were a result of arguments, fights and robberies. I know some weird shit now from putting this together. Not just murders. Ron Lance Im a 30yr old Richmonder, and I was 10 during this time and i remember most of all these. The category of assault is fairly broad, perhaps there is a specific category or type of assault should be be pulled out for comparison. Prosecutors and defense lawyers were bound by gag order from Judge James Spencer not to discuss the case. Physicians are required by law to report shootings and stabbings to police, so I very much doubt there are any going unreported. They say its like night and day between then and now. About Us WebNo one was killed in Richmond in June 2010. (I am 42 now and left Richmond in 2001 after a spiritual awakening). Many, many criminals have simply aged to the point that they are no longer the great threat that they were. According to a prison source and Moniques mom, she has spent most of the past two decades in seclusion in prison. Three bison escape Maine farm, two recaptured. 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. Wake up america. In his confession, Brown said Thomas had been telling people he had made her pregnant. We had just a hair over 20 killings per 100,000 residents in 2010, a number on par with recent years and a far cry form a high of 81 per 100,000 in 1994. This happened more than once. There's no question firearms were a big problem In the early 1900s, including revolvers, rifles and sawed-off shotguns. CHPN focuses on activities and events at the neighborhood level, and on larger events with direct impact on the community. Ive got updated data going back to 1934. Each of these quiet months has come in the last 3 years, and 2 of them have come in 2010. SEVERANCE. 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). The Oct. 14 rampage, in which Christopher Goins girlfriend was shot nine times but survived, was the worst mass murder in Richmonds Before French there were other developers who were investigated by the FBI. Police attributed the violence to the prevalence of crack cocaine. 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. Right now we have a shot gun victim, female, whos looks like shes going to make it. Powerball ticket forgotten in coat pocket turns out to be $1 million winner. Thank you for putting this list together. This explains ALOT about why my west end friends were so afraid for me moving to the Fan in 1997 and then when I told them Id bought a house in Church Hill in 1998. simply the best news article/reporting to come out of Richmond in a long time. Dispatchers transferred 38 calls to the call center from October to December 2022, and Richmonds Crisis Response Team responded to 227 calls for service from August to December 2022. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Dictionary.com is adding 313 new terms and 130 new definitions to keep up with the ever-changing modern lexicon. Caroline Cooke was one of them. I can ride down some streets and still remember how it was in my mind. Fairfield court / north side highland park areas, south side Jeff D turnpike / afton ave. "It's difficult to understand, frankly, how one human being can do that to another human being," he said. * invasion of Haiti I found that assault numbers seem to be more representative in those instances: http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/4969/clipboard01le.jpg. ''He was very angry. Wow, amazing work! I lived through the carnage of the early 90s in Richmond, although not on the hill. This is good. I befriended the chef at the Chinese Restaurant on Grace a few months before his untimely, and baffling, death. The Briley Brothers crime spree was 1979. Despite all the madness though, i loved RIchmond. They were both dead by 1985. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briley_Brothers. Back when the RTD did that report on murders in Richmond, I found a website that reported murders for Richmond and 7 surrounding counties. Source: Richmond Commonwealths Attorneys Office, Is Richmond a safer place now than it was in the 1990s? Not to say theyre less important but, as a reader, I wouldnt care if a woman stabbed another if they were acquainted. You had an idea for a story and nailed exactly what media should be taking the time to do more often. Quite a few died. Sorry John, I see it all, but most of what I see doesnt get reported. I am curious to hear what your opinion is on why the homicide rate went from 161 in 1994 to 37 last year. It was reported locally, almost immediately, and then followed up by official information the next day and then a few days later. There were more murders that April than in the first 6 months of 2010. To boot, weve solved 74 percent or 14 of 19 casesof homicides in 2010. 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. No jobs, dispair, a broke government, easy drugs and a lack of hope and change could put us right back as the murder city. Violent crime is down 1 percent led by our homicide rate, which is at a historic low. Working at MCV, I saw alot of people the last couple of months that died of either stabbings or gun shots. WebBrown'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. I am a big believer in the broken window theory! The Richmond Police Department has said that they can get the data, but that it will cost between $2,500-$3,000 to pull together the pre-1998 information (as it not held electronically). Yes there is violence, but you *cant* say that it isnt safer. Monique Anderson was just 15 when she broke into Mrs. Cookes home. Spend a day in the ER at MCV and then you tell me honestly how you feel. SPEIGHT, Douglas Christopher if anybody else has conflicting data lets see it and YOUR bonafides. So instead of doing mental gymnastics to figure out what changed, how to prevent it etc, just end this war. 2005 and 2007 are a clear example of this. John is right. Many of the kids in this gang were 15 or 16 years old. She could engage in a conversation and she could actually be quite likeablebut there were something in her eyes that wasnt quite there, remembered Claire Cardwell, then the deputy Commonwealths Attorney who prosecuted the case. ''She was madly in love with him,'' said Casandra Chappell, Thomas' cousin. In my opinion, Richmond has a history of overlooking white collar crime and its possible relationship to the street crime. But standing out amidst this bloodbath was an alarming number of older women, living alone, murdered in their homes. When she died, Thomas had just graduated from high school. So much of the violence seemed to be related to crack. The rate is significantly lower than it was in 1994, when Going back to at least 1980, Richmond has only had three months without any homicides. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. WebStories on Richmond murder made both Americas Most Wanted and got notice in December 5 piece in USA Today. Thanks for this presentation, John. hey it might be a good time to develop some new habits. He was just out of it. From the March 1993 issue of Richmond Surroundings. ''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. There were more people killed in July and August of 1994 than in all of 2008. This past weekend we saw four killed in the Gilpin Court housing project, built in old Jackson Ward in 1943. Heroin, lots of heroin. She believes theres something more the mental health system couldve done. I would like to further look into which areas of Richmond have seen these amazing drops in violence over the past decades, but the data required isnt readily available. IMO, things could EASILY get that bad again. The year before, in 1993, there were 111. Columbine happened in 1999. WebThe 2006 Richmond spree murders took place during a seven-day period in January 2006 in and around Richmond, Virginia, United States; seven people, four members of the Harvey family and three members of the Baskerville-Tucker family, were killed.The perpetrators were Ricky Javon Gray (March 9, 1977 January 18, 2017) and his nephew 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. Nobody that lived here at the time is still here, except me. August 1994 was the worst month in Richmonds history for killings at 25, or almost one every day. In the past 366 months, only 3 have passed without a killing, and all 3 have come in the last 8 months. Carrie Davis, a 78-year-old woman who lived in the big retirement community on the 1000 block of Grace Street, was one of 2 older women killed inside their apartments that year. Weve definitely come a along way, despite the setbacks, but we are only about half way there. Headline back then in the Richmond Times- Dispatch: "Manslaughter and murder soar in city. Horgas was pondering this question the next day when he came across a teletype alert from Richmond that made his hands shake. About Us Mental health specialists began seeing her at age four for her aggressiveness, hyperactivity, pulling out hair, smearing feces. 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. The leaders of the notorious Newtowne gang were locked up in 1992 after killing 13 people in a furious month and a half. Is that your point of reference?? Frederick #40 on the list, Debbie Gray, was my aunt and one of my best friends. The reason why we have questions of mayoral power now are directly related to that. I think it was a big blow to him.''. If youre interested in seeing what isnt always reported, the RPD puts out a daily report in Noteworthy Incidents that includes a number of non-fatal stabbings/shootings that dont get a mention on tv, the newspaper, or even here (though I do get it on the CHPN twitter). Antonio It was a hell of a year. (Some old news accounts reported 44 that year.) He was taken to a Medical College of Virginia hospital where he died, police said. * Republican Revolution in November gave control of Congress They *could* just do Richmond but that would just perpetuate the stereotype of not being able to get 10 feet into the city without being robbed and shot. ''I wasn't serious.''. 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. Great article though I wonder what exactly would make the author remark that they would not be surprised to see a body drop on Venable? Some of my neighbors have lived here for 35-45 years and tell about the crazy stuff that went down. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ''He said no, he had never had sex with her.''. The modernization and reform of the Richmond police department has been a great benefit to residents. Ill be excerpting this story for a ByrdPark.net feature so people can reminisce and/or thank their lucky stars. I then went to Franklin elementary to Elkhart Middle then to George Wythe High. You are soooo right about not being able to shake the images of those times from my head. Shockoe Bottom has not been the same since the murders. Oregon Hill reported a story of direct concern to that neighborhood and the RPD gave supporting details. Dan-I was referring to the media. @2020 - Church Hill Peoples News. Advertise With Us The sheer number of killings on Southside in 1994 is shocking. Advertise With Us its come a long ways. She was a well-liked volunteer at St. Marys Hospital and a well-known animal lover on her Kensington Avenue block, where neighbors kept on eye on the 71-year-old widow. Do you have any information you can share on Thomas McTernan who was beaten and killed in September 1994? Hugh Brown had told his girlfriend that they were going to run off together and get married, Brown said in his confession.
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