The good news for the city of Richmond from a crime perspective last year was a 37% drop in homicides and a 17% reduction in robberies of persons, Rick Edwards, the city’s acting police chief, said Wednesday during a news briefing.
During a Wednesday briefing, Acting Chief of Police Rick Edwards addressed Richmond's crime stats for 2022 and shared the department's safety plan moving forward.
Chesterfield County police detectives are investigating the location of a fatal shooting Tuesday night after the teenage victim arrived at a local hospital and died.
Both were pronounced dead at the scene in South Richmond. A dog also was wounded, police said.
Police said two people were found dead in South Richmond on Saturday.
A school superintendent says administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not find the 9mm handgun he brought despite searching his backpack. School system Superinte…
Community leaders on Friday expressed outage over the shooting of a Huguenot High School student who was wounded while walking to his bus stop on McDowell Road near Chippenham Parkway Friday morning.
Police are investigating an apparent shooting in South Richmond that left one man dead early Sunday.
A dozen people were charged with unlawful assembly and other misdemeanor offenses overnight after blocking West Grace Street and refusing orders to disperse, Richmond police said in a news release Monday morning.
A man died from an apparent gunshot wound suffered Monday morning in the parking lot of a business in the 1700 block of East Broad Street in Richmond.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson on Friday dismissed an appeal by a death row inmate who murdered a police officer who attempted to stop and question him.
A Petersburg man has been indicted on new charges of murder and felony use of a firearm in a June 23 shooting at Chesterfield Towne Center that fatally wounded a young Chesterfield County man following a fight.
Remains found in 1986 at Chesterfield landfill are identified as Richmond teen who disappeared at 16
For 34 years, Kim Atkins has been waiting, hoping that her younger sister would walk through the door one day.
The John Marshall Courts Building and buildings along East Cary Street were vandalized by protesters as they marched through Richmond Tues. night, Aug. 11, 2020.
A Richmond man with a criminal record and described as a mid-level drug dealer — caught last year with an ounce of cocaine, some heroin, $1,263 and a semiautomatic handgun loaded with 15 rounds — was sentenced Tuesday to 11½ years in prison.
A Hanover County man and avowed Ku Klux Klan leader boasted on social media shortly after he drove through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in Henrico County in June, according to video shown during a trial on Monday.
The Hanover County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the driver of vehicle that authorities said triggered a three-vehicle crash in Hanover on Saturday and killed a passenger in the suspect’s car.
The Hanover County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a three-vehicle accident that left one man dead on Saturday and another on the run.
Richmond police are investigating two separate shootings and a stabbing that occurred before 4 a.m. Sunday morning.
Chesterfield County police are investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash that left a 47-year-old Moseley woman dead Saturday afternoon.
Richmond police have identified the woman who died at a city hospital on Wednesday after being taken into emergency custody by Chesterfield County police during a mental health crisis.
A 17-year-old Gordonsville teen pleaded guilty in Louisa County Circuit Court on Friday to charges of first-degree murder, malicious wounding, robbery, burglary and firearm violations stemming from an attack on a couple last November.
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The Virginia Parole Board and its former chairperson violated state law and parole board policies in its decision to grant parole to Vincent Martin, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1980 for killing a Richmond police officer, according to an investigative report by the Office of the In…
The Richmond Police Department is working to locate a missing child whose mother is wanted for parental abduction.
Chesterfield police: Woman dies after being taken into emergency custody during mental health crisis
Chesterfield County police reported late Wednesday that a woman died at a Richmond hospital after being taken into emergency custody during a mental health crisis.
Prince George County police said they have arrested three people suspected of stealing more than $5,900 from gaming machines in the county.
A 2-year-old girl was shot early Wednesday in Whitcomb Court in Richmond’s East End, the latest wounding of a young child in a recent wave of shootings in the city.
A Centreville man was killed Tuesday evening in a single-vehicle crash in Hanover County.
A Hopewell teenager found dead after he exchanged gunfire with Colonial Heights police in April died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the state medical examiner has ruled.
The Richmond Police Department is asking the public for information about two exchanges of gunfire on Monday night in the East End that officers believe are related.