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The 2010 Run to the River 10k/5k is set for October 16. Register now or sign up to volunteer!

A man in his late 20s was shot in the leg at a residence in the 1400 block of Williamsburg Road at around 11PM on Friday night as the result of a domestic dispute. He was taken to VCU Medical Center with a non-life threatening injury. Kevin Sheldon Samuels, 36, of the 1400 block of Williamsburg Road was arrested soon after and charged with aggravated assault. The weapon used in the shooting was found in the backyard of a neighboring residence.

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The Richmond Police Department is investigating the fatal shooting of a man in the 1300 block of Garber Street. Around 4 a.m. a citizen saw a man lying in the front yard of a residence and called Richmond Police. Officers arrived and found the man unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the victim of an apparent gunshot wound.

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Responding to reports of shooting at around 2:30AM this morning, Richmond Police found Shamarl O. Whittaker, 22, shot to death inside an apartment in the 1300 block of Jennie Scher Road. This is the 9th homicide in the East End in 2010 and Richmond’s 23rd this year.

HandOn Greater Richmond is looking for volunteers to help out at the NRC to assist with “eco” stations & teach about recycling & composting on Sunday, July 25:

For this fundraiser benefiting the Neighborhood Resource Center, we need volunteers to assist event coordinator by monitoring “eco” stations – stations set up to collect trash, recycling, and compost. Volunteers will stand at an assigned eco station and help people determine which items go into which bins.

Volunteers will be briefed on which items go where and signs will also be placed on and around bins. At the end of the event, volunteers will be asked to weigh and record the trash, recycling, and compost collected from each eco station. Recycling, compost, and trash will be moved to one central location for easy pickup. Please note that volunteers must be able to life up to 25 pounds.

Required Attire: Comfortable clothing and sturdy shoes–things you don’t mind getting a little dirty.

Minimum age to volunteer: 14 (Individuals ages 17 and under must volunteer with an adult.)

The RTD is reporting that the murder charge against Andre Russell Harvin in the May 27th death Jameal Smith. Declaring it an act of self-defense and a justified killing, this lowers the total number of homicides in Richmond so far in 2010 to 19.

Ashley Williams has been arrested and charged with the June 2009 death of her toddler son on the 1900 Block of Newman Road. She was charged in 2009, but the charges were later suspended. More evidence has recently come light, however, and the charges have been refiled.

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nbc12 has details on a break-in in the 1200 block of Garber Street:

Police say someone stole cash and took off with the family’s newest member, a 6-week-old pit bull puppy. It happened in the 1200 block of Garber Street and when news of a stolen pup spread, it didn’t sit well with residents.

The Richmond National Cemetery on Williamsburg Road was established on September 1, 1866. Reinterments included 3,200 bodies, mostly unknown, removed from Oakwood Cemetery; 210 (115 known) from the cemetery of the Belle Isle Confederate Prison in Richmond; 12 deceased prisoners of war from a trench at the Rocketts Landing; 388 (all known but 18) from Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond; and remains from the Cold Harbor and Seven Pines battlefields, as well as from locations in Chesterfield and Hanover Counties. Some seventy different locations within a maximum distance of 25 miles of the cemetery site were searched in order that Union dead might be accorded honored burial in a national cemetery.

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