I live right above Woodcroft Apartments in Montrose Heights and at 7:20 pm I heard maybe twenty shots being fired back and forth. I called 911 and reported it, lets see what happens.

My family member Donald Harris was brutally mudered when he left his home on the night of December 11, 2000 to go get a pack of cigarettes.  He was found 20 minutes later in the back seat of his car in Gillies Creek, shot in the head.  He was not into drugs and he would have given the shirt off of his back to anyone. Instead someone decided to shoot him for no reason. Some heartless coward is walking the street while we had to lay a 34 year old to rest two weeks before Christmas. I hope that the person or persons that murdered him suffer the same, if not worse fate that they brought to him. If anyone knows of these cowards, it would be a relief for our family to have some peace knowing that this scum is off of the street and not harming anyone else.  I don’t usually wish harm to anyone, but for someone to take an innocent life of a man for no reason deserves the worst fate that could possibly be brought to them.  We are looking for answers, as we have been for almost 8 years now.  There is not a day that goes by that we don’t grieve for him.  I know someone out there knows something or maybe who did this to him and if you have a heart in your chest you will contact the Richmond Police Dept. with any information. Detective Fultz is handling the case.  Please, give our family some peace and put this person or persons where they belong.

• 6:05 Bobby Vickers, president of Greater Fulton Civic Association introduced meeting.
• Captain Ronca (Captain of 1^stprecinct) introduced the panel. Panel included Lt. James Laino, Sgt. Allan King (with the aggravated/ assault team), and Lt. Hamlett Hood (Gang team). Chief David McCoy was also present. Captain Ronca  thanked the audience for being present, as well as those who called the police related to the most recent incident

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From NBC12 Breaking news: Shots fired in Fulton Hill community:

The shooting happened around 10:15 a.m. in the 1200 block of Millwood Road in the Fulton Hill area. Random shots were fired, no one was hit. Police say they recovered a car in this situation. And someone stole a bike. No description is available at this time for the suspect officials are searching for.

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A teenage boy was shot at the Powhatan Hill Community Center just after 4PM today. The unidentified victim is at the VCU medical center, where he is in critical but stable condition. [via]

Monday night, June 23^rd around 11pm, I felt what it must be like to live in Iraq. Automatic weapon fire was going off, round after round, after round….I called 911 to report the sounds coming from Nelson and Salem Streets. No one answered 911 and no one ever called back. If I had a sick baby or was an elder experiencing a heart attack-there was no way to get help from our city public safety system.

A few minutes after I called 911 and got no response, I started hearing sirens. I spoke to a neighbor the next day; she told me she called 911 the same night and got no response either and no call back.

I reported this to Lt. Laino from first precinct on June 24^th at 5:30pm. He said he would look into the 911 incidents and get back to me. He had no knowledge about the cause of the shooting other than that someone was shot in the chest.

Backup a bit: June 22-I observed a drug deal involving a maroon, four-door car and three African-American (AA) males, one in the car (heavy set, dark skin, one inch afro-hair style; outside the car was: one light skinned AA-male around 5’11” very short hair, handsome, about 190 lbs-strong-medium build-white T-shirt-black shorts-didn’t see the shoes; next to him stood a dark-skinned AA-male with thick corn-row dreads-three or four prominent ones. He also had a Goat-T on his face. He stands about 5’8” and weighs about 145 or 155lbs-around 30-35 years old. White T-shirt, blue-jean shorts-didn’t see the shoes. The guys not driving the car did a hand-to-hand drug deal near the corner of Campbell Ave. and Vista Street in broad daylight around 5pm. I called it in to the police, but didn’t see any police vehicle touring the area.

I learned yesterday that a neighbor saw the same dark-skinned corn-row/dread guy shooting at her dog later that same night on June 22^nd.

I propose we begin a log of neighborhood observations with precise days, times, details. Maybe keep a logbook by your phone. Every time you see a drug deal or hear gun fire-call 911 and report it and then log it in your book. Please note whether or not the police showed up after you called. If they did, what time did they come. If you post your observations on the Greater Fulton website, consider signing it anonymously- I say this because folks running the narcotics game in Greater Fulton have been doing it for a long time, they probably have their own website!

The RTD is reporting that a man was shot in the abdomen at around 11PM in the 5200 block of Salem Street.

7th District Representative and City Council VP Delores McQuinn will be hosting a 7th District Community Meeting this Saturday, May 17th from 11AM–1PM at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church (3200 East Broad Street). Agenda items include the Oakwood Heights Condominium Project, 7th District Community Concerns, and a 7th District Police Report update.

Sierra Davis, 18, died last night after being shot during a large fight on the 900 block of Admiral Gravely Boulevard. Officers were called to the scene on reports of a large fight; the shooting seems to have been from a struggle over a gun.

The RTD is reporting that “one person was shot twice in the 1200 block Admiral Gravely Boulevard … at about 10:40 p.m. The person was taken to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. Police had no further details on the incident.”

There has been a leadership change at First Precinct. The new commander is Paul Ronca and the new Sector 111 lieutenant is James (JJ) Laino.

A prayer vigil was held last night for shooting victim Macon Griffin, organized by Citizens Against Crime advocate Alicia Rasin. Macon Griffin was graduate of Armstrong High School and lived with his girlfriend and their two children, ages 5 and 7. [via]

A man was discovered shot to death just after 9PM Wednesday night in the 1500 block of Jennie Scher Road. No identity or motive for the killing has been announced. [via]

Changes at one of our sister sites had disabled the neighborhood crime map for a few days, but everything is back up and running.

Around 11AM Saturday morning, officers were called to the rooming house at 1216 Williamsburg Road and found 30-year-old Damone Jackson Black shot to death, Richmond’s 50th homicide victim of the year. [via]

Officials believe that escaped convict Alonzo Logan was spotted in Fulton Bottom early this morning. Logan was apparently looking for his brother at around 1AM at his former apartment in Woodcroft Village on Jennie Scher Road. He may have been sited this afternoon in Church Hill and is considered armed and dangerous. [via]

A fairly large crowd from around the area turned out Saturday morning for 7th District Council Representative and Vice President Delores McQuinn’s Town Hall Meeting at the United House of Prayer (926 Chimborazo Boulevard). The meeting began amidst murmered chatter about the previous night’s events at city hall…

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The crime map has been reworked to focus more on only Fulton Hill.