Southside apartment complex: Crime wonât define the community
Southside apartment complex: Crime wonât define the community By Brent Solomon | May 7, 2021 at 10:55 PM EDT - Updated May 7 at 11:18 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The investigation into the shooting deaths of a mother and daughter and the wounding of three others in South Richmond has come to a close with police making their fifth and final arrest.
Friday, police announced 18-year-old Kevon Bynum is now in custody along with four others, all accused in a shootout that killed a 30-year-old mother and her 3-month-old baby at the Belt Atlantic Apartments last month.
By COLLEEN CURRAN
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Editorâs note: Some names in this story have been changed to protect the personal health information of the women who shared their experiences.
In the beginning of the pandemic, Jill, 40, told herself that pouring a glass of wine would help her cope with the anxiety and stress of lockdown.
Sheâd be watching âPaw Patrolâ with her three young kids for the hundredth time and have a glass of wine to cut through the boredom. Then sheâd have another with her husband before dinner. Then there were Zoom happy hours, some of the only times sheâd see her best friends, where she started getting creative with mixed drinks.
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shootout in a Richmond, Virginia apartment complex claimed the lives of a 30-year-old woman and her three-month-old daughter on Tuesday.
Sharnez Hill and her daughter
Neziah were two of five bystanders who were shot, the other three – a 29-year-old woman, and two girls ages 11 and 15, are in stable condition.
The shooting took place at approximately 6:30 p.m. in a courtyard within the Belt Atlantic apartment complex in
South Richmond. On Wednesday, Hill’s family and friends made a memorial in the courtyard where Hill was slain. Her daughter passed away shortly afterward.
“This is what’s making it so sad right now. All she wanted to do was have a baby and be a mother, and finally she gets to be a mother and this happens,”
Petersburg warns developer to repair or raze blighted hotel, or city will
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A sign announcing plans for the building stands in front of the former Ramada Inn between East Washington and Wythe streets in Petersburg. (
Jonathan Spiers photos)
As it starts work on another building in South Richmond that it purchased less than a year ago, the development firm that more than five years ago announced plans to redevelop the former Ramada Inn in Petersburg is facing an ultimatum from that city to take action on the property.
City leaders in Petersburg said in a news conference Wednesday that they intend to obtain a court order requiring property owner C.A. Harrison Cos. to repair or demolish the blighted hotel building along Interstate 95 that’s become more of an eyesore than it was in late 2015, when the firm announced plans for a $20 million rehab.