shooter at a graduation. reporter: a gunman opening fire while hundreds of graduates and their families gathered at the altria theater after the high school s commencement ceremony. everyone started running and it s just chaos from there. you just kept hearing shots. reporter: the gunshots killing jackson and his 36-year-old father renzo smith and four others ranging in age 14 to 58. police arresting 19-year-old amari. police say he and jackson had exchanged words outside the theater. they say pollard got a gun from his car and opened fire before calmly surrendering to officers at the scene. this was targeted at one individual, so they knew each other and had an ongoing dispute. reporter: witnesses in the school community are still in shock. seared in my mind is the image of our graduates who walked across the stage, who i shook his stand, literally 15
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In a devastating turn of events, an 18-year-old high school graduate and his father were fatally shot on Tuesday after a high school graduation ceremony on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond.
A suspect, Amari Pollard, 19, was arraigned Wednesday morning on two counts of second-degree murder and is being held without bail, interim Police Chief Rick Edwards said at a news conference, according to CNN.