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Richmond times dispatch obituary fee6/30/2023 Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras said the new graduates were outside taking photos with families and friends when the shooting broke out. Two people were treated for falls one juvenile was struck by a car and sustained injuries that were not life-threatening and nine people were treated at the scene for minor injuries or anxiety, according to police spokeswoman Tracy Walker. “It materialized in a stampede,” he said. “That prompted, as you would expect, hundreds of persons in an effort to flee the gunfire to return to the building,” Young said. School board member Jonathan Young told Richmond TV station WWBT that graduates and other attendees were leaving the building when they heard about 20 gunshots in rapid succession. and radioed to police stationed outside, who found multiple victims, Edwards said. Officers inside the theater, where the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School had been taking place, heard gunfire around 5:15 p.m. “This should not be happening anywhere,” Stoney said. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney vowed to ensure anyone responsible faces justice. Police initially said two suspects were detained, but Edwards said later that they determined one of them was not involved. “We had hundreds of people in Monroe Park, so people scattered. “As they heard the gunfire, it was obviously chaos,” Edwards said. At least 12 others were injured or treated for anxiety due to the mayhem, according to police. RICHMOND - Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses said.Ī 19-year-old suspect tried to escape on foot but was arrested and will be charged with two counts of second-degree murder, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said during a nighttime news conference at which he confirmed the two fatalities.įive others were wounded by the gunfire outside the state capital’s city-owned Altria Theater, which is across the street from a large, grassy park and in the middle of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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