It was a huge story for the city because so many felt the fear. During a confession Hugh Joseph Brown gave to police Aug. 13, 1992, he said the last thing his pregnant girlfriend said before he shot her at least six times and then set her body afire was that she loved him. We moved to Church Hill in 1999. For reported, I assumed that he was referring to the media, not the police. Habit, I think. * Unabomber killed a man in New Jersey Each of these quiet months has come in Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman said a Powerball ticket found forgotten in the pocket of her husband's coat turned out to be a $1 million winner. ''The guilty plea was an easy thing for him,'' said Christine Claiborne, a family friend of Thomas'. 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). I love my city. Lived off Jeff Davis in 98 for 2 yrs about 1mile south of Afton ave. Got involved in all the wrong things in those years and they have shaped my future immensely. Medical and technological advances are also keeping more people alive, she adds. They say its like night and day between then and now. In the 2 1/2 years since, weve had just 1. There were more murders that April than in the first 6 months of 2010. The majority of crimes and shooting was black on black (and, sadly, that is likely still the case). It was rough, to say the least. We knew what areas to stay away from (Gilpin Court, Whitcomb Court, Fairfield, etc.) Unfortunately after they had hyped how great the area was he moved out after being robbed in his house at gunpoint. WebVirginias murder rate was comparatively smaller than the countrys average, which stood at 4.5 murders per 100,000. RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) A woman was found dead in Gillies Creek Park in Richmonds East End after an apparent shooting, according to Richmond Police. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. BLOODGOOD. This is where the community blogs (and the police department) make a difference in getting information out to areas. Excellent reporting! my first apartment was in church hill in 97. its every bit as dangerous as this article says it was. * Paper Moon tried to open on 18th Street A lot of people around the neighborhood describe the streets as about as safe as the Wild West back in the days when drugs were the top priority for many in the community. If anybody who was at this cook out reads this, call me. The category of assault is fairly broad, perhaps there is a specific category or type of assault should be be pulled out for comparison. This past weekend we saw four killed in the Gilpin Court housing project, built in old Jackson Ward in 1943. Susan Hellams, a neurosurgeon, had There is a growing area of the East End, encompassing Union Hill, St.Johns, the southern areas of Fairmount and Church Hill North, Fulton, and Montrose where this type of violence has receded since 200607 and is increasingly foreign. Our aggravated assaults which comprise shootings, stabbings and an assault where the skin is brokenare down 7 percent. http://cwaynetaylor.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/crime-assaults/. But once houses were being renovated things turned around. Trial inspired career in court. 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 really would like to know more info on the murder of Harold David Robertson Jr. need your help for this. I was around in the 90s and remember many of these murders. When I stated I was moving here, and to Church Hill, Richmonders tried to warn me away from this area. (PDF). In the 90s Richmond was majority black and in the areas mentioned the population was more dense. Learn how your comment data is processed. Richmond bottomed out in 1994: one city councilman went off to rehab for his heroin problem and another was in hot water for not paying utilities and renting out condemned property, enrollment at VCU dropped, the city recorded the nations 19th largest population decline since 1980, Richmond made the wrong end of Money Magazines Best Places to Live list, and by the end of the year had tallied a record 161 homicides. 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. WebDebbie Dudley Davis, a 35-year-old account executive, was murdered between 9:00 p.m. on September 18, 1987, and 9:30 a.m. on September 19, 1987, in her Westover Hills apartment. Excellent reporting! The house we bought was not on the market and a friend at the time turned us on to it. Monique had been breaking into homes randomly or just wandering into them sometimes confronting and/or attacking the homeowners during the months before and after Mrs. Cookes slaying. I was one of the reporters covering their stories for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. @C. Wayne Taylor Thats interesting. The If it bleeds, it leads rule still seems to apply. Again, good work chpn! @julestools I specifically had in mind Venable and Pink Street, to 24th and Cedar. The city was all-but killed by the skyrocketing murder rates during the crack cocaine years in the late 1980s through the mid-90s. Ill be excerpting this story for a ByrdPark.net feature so people can reminisce and/or thank their lucky stars. Learn how your comment data is processed. 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. Waco happened in 1993. 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. Despite all the madness though, i loved RIchmond. This is a proven fact. a lot of violence. I am a big believer in the broken window theory! I left Richmond in 1999. The violence peaked in August 1994 when 25 killings left someone dead almost every day of that month. Unfortunately, the FBI no longer publishes its rates in a manner by which you can easily see city comparisons. (I dont think anyone would be surprised to see a body drop on Venable Street, though). Brown and his lawyer, Roger C. Gregory, entered a ''conditional plea,'' which leaves room for appeal. I think it was a big blow to him.''. Police said Robinson was shot with a handgun. WebMan dies of apparent gunshot wound in South Richmond Richmond detectives make two arrests in shooting on East 21st Street Arrest made in Broad Street fatal shooting New I cant find any data on the number of gun shot victims in Richmond by year which to use for comparison. john unfortunately you seem to be running into the who are you gonna believe me or your lying eyes syndrome. The defendants could receive the death penalty or life in prison. No jobs, dispair, a broke government, easy drugs and a lack of hope and change could put us right back as the murder city. Wow, amazing work! Brown killed Thomas three weeks after an angry meeting between members of both their families about the pregnancy, Esther Brown, Thomas' aunt, said in an interview. I then went to Franklin elementary to Elkhart Middle then to George Wythe High. Someone said things changed because of gentrification? Looking back, it was a frightening time to live in the city of Richmond in the early 90s. There were 9 killings in the Byrd Park/Randolph/Maymount area in 1994, including an early evening double homicide in a store parking lot. 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. I was thinking of the Virginia is for lovers commercials and trips to Virginia Beach when I decided to go to school in VA. Any details about what happened? Jake Are you saying that the RPD is not reporting murders? WebRICHMOND, Va. One of the worst murders this city has even seen happened in 1993 and the horror lives on in seclusion in a state prison cell. Subscribe The people living there were always in trouble or being watched by cops and feds. I rented a house in Union Hill in 1997, and moved back in 2004 when my husband and I bought our house here. On October 14, 1994, 20-year-old Christopher Goins went to the Gilpin Court apartment of 14-year-old Tamika Jones, who was seven months pregnant with Goins child, and killed Tamikas parents, her 9-year-old sister, Nicole, her 4-year-old brother, David, and her 3-year-old brother, Robert. The two families agreed to have experts compare blood samples from Thomas' baby and Hugh Brown after the baby was born, Esther Brown said. being a young jamaican hustler holding it down in Dodge City. Old murder files show some surprises, like the 1946 murder trial of white Richmond officer Edward Dooley for fatally shooting suspected gambler Walter Willis "as the Negro fled after striking the officer with a blackjack," according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch report at the time. Richmond is a safe place to livewith a very few neighborhoods that are not safe. In 1936, Richmond had 29 slayings in a city of 188,000. Local news for the East End of Richmond, Virginia from Union Hill to Fulton, St. Johns to Fairfield. 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. Many of the kids in this gang were 15 or 16 years old. 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. 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. 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. But many of the homicides were a result of arguments, fights and robberies. (Some old news accounts reported 44 that year.) With recent years showing the lowest body counts since 1961, the citys population back up over 200,000, and VCU having greatly expanded, it is difficult to imagine that mid-1990s Richmond was ever real. He was taken to a Medical College of Virginia hospital where he died, police said. In his confession, Brown said Thomas had been telling people he had made her pregnant. There were more people killed in July and August of 1994 than in all of 2008. Things got so bad that the U.S. She lived there before they tore it down and built the projects. This a awesome report. ", "We're tired of being beaten up," Chief Alfred Durham said. 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. It then gets swung around by the elephant until it lets go. WebUnsolved Homicides Help us bring justice to the victims and families of these unsolved homicide cases in Henrico County. Shes up for parole and the parole board is processing the automatic request. ''He said no, he had never had sex with her.''. 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? Thanks for the superlative for Maymont/ByrdPark/Randolph. "I loved him and he drove me to it," Patricia Boyer said after she blasted her cabdriver boyfriend with a .22 rifle. I have been shot at while walking along the park where the basketball courts are. Thats well above the clearance rate for many cities our size. I am assuming the date is the date of her death? 2. Debbie Davis, an accounts clerk, had been found dead in her apartment on Sept. 19, 1987. I must say how Richmond has come along way from back. ''She had lost her mother, and her father had lost their home. GRAPH: Murders per 100,000 1980-2009 (Richmond, Virginia), DATA: Murders per 100,000 1980-2009 (Richmond, Virginia). A man was arrested for the killing of Ms.Ross, and he was later connected to the death of Ms.Davis. My question to Jake is how long have you worked at MCV?? RICHMOND, Va. -- Three members of a drug gang allegedly linked to 11 murders in 45 days were found guilty Wednesday in the first case in which federal prosecutors used a drug kingpin law against multiple capital defendants. Each of these quiet months has come in the last 8 months, and 2 of them have come in 2010. There were incidents those months, but either the charges were withdrawn when declared to be self-defense, or the charge was listed as involuntary manslaughter. There Brown laid out the sheet and they had consensual sex. 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This spike has city leaders asking the same questions that generations of mayors, council members and police brass have in this deadly southern city. 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. I tell this to anyone who look at me sideways about why I chose to live in the area I grew up in. No one was killed in Richmond in June 2010. It really is different here than it used to be. They believed it was a man. Antonio YORK The last thing Hugh Joseph Brown heard his pregnant girlfriend say was that she loved him. Working at MCV, I saw alot of people the last couple of months that died of either stabbings or gun shots. Dog rescued after falling 12 feet into Georgia storm drain. McEachin says one program that helped to reduce the rate was Project Exile, launched in 1997, which moved the prosecution of felons caught with guns to federal court, where there was a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison. The Richmond VA murder/homicide rate for RISSELL, Joseph 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?" My assumption is that the number of fatal shootings as a percentage of over-all shootings is a somewhat stable percentage that less homicides indicate that less people are, in fact, getting shot. These are the kind of statistics I enjoy reviewing, although unfortunate. 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). Virginia Ross was also found murdered that year in another retirement high-rise in Northside on the 1600 block of Fourth Avenue. EVONITZ. There was drug violence across the country but because the news picked and chose what crimes to report on, the world only saw black on black crime and those stereotypes have prevailed to this day. A real reporter would have editors and plenty of guidance and help. In my opinion, Richmond has a history of overlooking white collar crime and its possible relationship to the street crime. 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). There was a well known drug house directly across the street from me that was one of the distrubution centers for this gang. ''She was madly in love with him,'' said Casandra Chappell, Thomas' cousin. Powerball ticket forgotten in coat pocket turns out to be $1 million winner. Was she a VCU student? Over half of them were gunned down while the others were doing the shooting and are spending the rest of their lives behind bars. [3] As the number of killings in the East End has dropped, the rate has dropped in some areas and killing has started to disappear from others. The search for Goins dominated the headlines in Richmond in the weeks before he was captured, seeming to take the focus of police and communities otherwise unable to stop the flood of violence around them. The prosecution asserted the gang sold huge quantities of crack in one Richmond neighborhood. 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. Sorry John, I see it all, but most of what I see doesnt get reported. Colette McEachin, Richmonds newly elected commonwealths attorney, started working in the prosecutors office in 1991. John do you know if this is true? Do you think that Federal Incarceration programs like Project EXILE played a part? During the past two decades, shes watched homicides gradually decline to a low of 32 in 2008 and then hold steady at about 40 per year until 2016, when the number climbed to 61. Thank you very much in advance. As of July 10, 2010, Richmond has gone 48 days without a homicide the 3rd longest period since at least 1980. The reported twists and turns and passions surrounding the case made it read like it happened today. This city has so much potential. I am happy to hear that reality is gone. Really good job John. And this story is proof. A Richmond man was sentenced to 78 months in prison for owning a firearm while being a convicted felon, according to the Department of Justice. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 13 at York County Circuit Court. Her lips and eras were torn. i found a body next to my car one time. Source: Richmond Commonwealths Attorneys Office, Is Richmond a safer place now than it was in the 1990s? 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 I bet thats a typo, Richmond CA has taken our old spot at the top of those lists. http://transitionalneighborhoodlowdown.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/is-richmond-1-in-homicides/. 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. Although things have gotten better, there is still a lit of room for improvement. In 2021, only 51% of homicides were solved, Most of the violence in the 1990s was attributable to a family called Briley. Thomas' family members said they were disappointed that Brown pleaded guilty, thus avoiding the spectacle of a jury trial. WebInteractive chart of the Richmond, Virginia murder rate (i.e. Given the time involved, I chose to pull the info only for 1994, which to get I had to dig through the years worth of the RTD at the Library of Virginia. III, Charles Stanard The mother had to work two jobs while the father was out of the country working so the kids were on their own most of the time hanging with the wrong crowds. But Mrs. Cookes daughter and one of her neighbors fear that theres not enough oversight and control in the mental health system for someone as dangerous as Monique Anderson. If anyone reading this has a compelling interest and a happy checkbook, please contact me. Ive lived in Church Hill and on the west end (which doesnt count). The increasing ratio number shows a yearly count of assaults that is falling much more slowly than the number of homicides. Those of you who think that nothing can be done for the neighborhood until crime is curtailed are mistaken. Hugh Brown had told his girlfriend that they were going to run off together and get married, Brown said in his confession. People who are from Richmond and its suburbs cant shake off these 10-20 year old images, reported above. The city was all-but killed by the skyrocketing Going with the lower number of 32 homicides in 2008, there were 3 months that year with no homicides: May, August, and December. This was well known by the police who told me what do you expect when people on City Council are known cocaine users? WebBriley and his brothers were linked to about a dozen murders in the Richmond area. 2005 and 2007 are a clear example of this. WebSeptember 22, 1993: 1: Virginia, USA : Herman Charles BARNES: June 27, 1985: 2: Virginia, USA : Gregory Warren BEAVER. Gregory had unsuccessfully challenged in a previous hearing the legitimacy of Brown's confession, saying Brown may not have been aware of his right to remain silent when he spoke to police. Some of my neighbors have lived here for 35-45 years and tell about the crazy stuff that went down. She had been strangled with a ligature and ratchet-type device. WebThe murder clearance rate hit an all-time low in 2020, and data analyzed by a nonprofit shows that trend continued last year. My brother was the 47th homicide victim that year in April, on Lynnhaven Ave. Its a totally different place now. 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. Not to say theyre less important but, as a reader, I wouldnt care if a woman stabbed another if they were acquainted. I was one of the medics caught up in that mess. Touchstone department stores like Miller & Rhoads and Thalhimers were done. Over the shorter term or in smaller areas, homicide numbers in the city tend to vary considerably from period to period. (I am 42 now and left Richmond in 2001 after a spiritual awakening). This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. SPEIGHT, Douglas Christopher a national trend towards a decrease in violence, puts out a daily report in Noteworthy Incidents, the RPDs online system doesnt break out Aggravated Assaults from Assaults, your link is to a report about a stabbing in Oregon Hill, Neighborhood Driving Zoo opens this spring, Drug activity on 25th revealed to be long-game covert opp, City releases new traffic control measures, List of streets that might be named after Confederates. This work identified 158 homicides (PDF) not a perfect data set, but close enough to have a sense of what was going on where in 1994. After my parents divorce we moved uptown. Police attributed the violence to the prevalence of crack cocaine. WebThe man who called himself Lawrence Vanner was arrested in September 2002, after police found Jun dead and buried under a pile of kitty litter in the basement of her East to keep expanding and making Murderpedia a better site, but we really Business owners on E. Broad and Grace Streets pulled down their security grates and walked away. When she was found slain in the living room of her home in January 1993, we heard whispers of how horrible it was, that she had been sexually assaulted and bludgeoned to death. Local news for the East End of Richmond, Virginia from Union Hill to Fulton, St. Johns to Fairfield. 3. Lafayette POYNER. On Feb. 19, 2021, police approached TMar Green, 23, a The year before, in 1993, there were 111. I with we could find the person that killed her and honestly wouldnt be surprised if they are not on your list after her murder. This was later revised to 32. 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. Richmond was known as The Murder Capital back then. Prosecutors alleged they operated a cocaine ring in Richmond and Virginia's eastern Henrico County. We had another one who was shot mulitiple times earlier in the week, yet the bullets missed every vital organ and the victim lives. I was raise uptown South Side. Super article. I moved to Richmond in 89 and trust me, from 1990-1999, violence and crime was like that here in VA! Richard Tipton, 22, was convicted of six murder charges and acquitted of two, and James H. Roane Jr., 26, was convicted of four murder counts. At one point during the year, the bodies were dropping fast enough to put the city on target for 182 killings by the end of December. ''I just got upset and I reacted.''. Crack and the early 90s, dems were tha days. Going back to at least 1980, Richmond has only had three months without any homicides. TIPTON. Movies and the hype of gangsta rap did help each. Brown killed Thomas three weeks after an angry meeting between members of both their families about the pregnancy, Esther Brown, Thomas' aunt, said in an interview. A 20% drop in assaults/year 2000/2010, a 55% drop in homicides/year/per capita 2000/2010. * fire at St.James on Franklin Street April 12, 1985: 1: Virginia, USA : Thomas H. 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. This is the best start to a year for the 30 years that monthly records are available ahead even each of the last 2 record-low years at this date, and a whopping 59 better than 1994s count of 79 at the end of June. The U.S. Census population estimate for 2018 was 228,783. She believes theres something more the mental health system couldve done. Does anyone know the story behind an infant was basically boiled to death? Whites and blacks were fleeing as Richmond boldly arrived on the list of the top-10 deadliest cities and then marched toward the very top. Just realized that the current 48 day stretch without a homicide in the city is the longest since at least 1980. ''I did tell her that,'' he said. You are soooo right about not being able to shake the images of those times from my head. About Us Excellent! Yes there is violence, but you *cant* say that it isnt safer. i can only imagine that Richmond is a very different place from what it was back in the 90s. That years spike in killings did not arrive suddenly. Crack cocaine-fueled murders were spreading across the city like a prairie fire. My great-grandmother is from Blackwell. More than a dozen of them. Yes, not all of the non-fatal incidents make the big media. I did not live in Richmond in the 90s. James Briley executed for killing a pregnant Richmond woman and her 5-year-old son. I was 17 in 1994-5 and ran all over those streets. She had been sexually assaulted with a broomstick so violently, she suffered internal damage to some of her organs. It was reported locally, almost immediately, and then followed up by official information the next day and then a few days later. Despite this overall trend, Richmond, Virginia. Eric Ernest They were both dead by 1985. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briley_Brothers. By 1942, there were 43. 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. The results are pretty striking, even adjusted for population. Just because you see people coming in with gunshot/stab wounds doesnt mean it isnt less than it has been in the past. And how do we keep that from ever happening again, in your opinion? Many, many criminals have simply aged to the point that they are no longer the great threat that they were. And the roots of the tragedies - and where they are concentrated - remain stubbornly similar based on news reports then, and now. We would learn the horror in the house on Kensington was simply an extreme example of what Monique had been expressing since she was a little girl. I think things are much better than they used to be. Those hot cinder blocks walls on the inside of her house. But these spikes - along with a steady drain of human life - have long been a part of living in a killing city, historic homicide reports and records show. 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