Richmond graduation shooting: Complete coverage
This is continuing Times-Dispatch coverage of a shooting that killed two after a Richmond high school graduation ceremony.
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An 18-year-old graduating student and a 36-year-old man were shot and killed outside Richmond's Altria Theater on Tuesday evening.
Fifty-eight school shootings have happened in Virginia since 1971, according to The Violence Project, a nonprofit group that tracks K-12 school shootings.
The shooting left two dead and five more injured, one with life-threatening conditions.
GOP Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrats clashed on social media after she made comments in the wake of a shooting following a Richmond graduation ceremony.
Officials reacted Tuesday to a shooting in Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony:
Amari Ty-Jon Pollard was arraigned in Richmond General District Court on two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the shooting.
Seven people were shot — two of them fatally — Tuesday evening following a Richmond high school graduation. Here is what the Richmond Times-Dispatch can report on the shooting at this point.
Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras didn't know Shawn Jackson well, he said in a joint press briefing with Mayor Levar Stoney and Acting Police Chief Rick Edwards Wednesday morning at Richmond Police Department headquarters on Grace Street.
Graduation had ended, and the nearly 300 students exited the theater. Then Fabiola Chesnut heard about 10 gunshots in rapid succession.
18-year-old Shawn Jackson struggled in school, said Huguenot High School Principal Robert Gilstrap. But despite that, he graduated Tuesday afternoon.
Huguenot High School graduation before the shooting.
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Four days after a deadly shooting took place at the Altria Theater, performances are still planned at the theater for this weekend.
Henrico County Public Schools continue to hold graduation ceremonies after the shooting tragedy at Altria Theatre. Families at Thursday's Highland Springs ceremony said they were determined to enjoy the day.
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Richmond students and families are experiencing a myriad of emotions.
"You can feel it on campus. Morale is pretty low."
Funeral services were held Thursday for the Huguenot High School graduate and his stepfather
Rick Edwards, the interim Richmond police said, a press conference about this month's shooting in Monroe Park that left two dead was canceled …
The man who police say opened fire in Monroe Park following a high school graduation ceremony appeared in court again Wednesday morning.
The Richmond Police Department announced Thursday it would hold a news conference the next day to update the public about the Huguenot High School graduation shooting, which left two dead and five hospitalized with gunshot wounds in the heart of Richmond’s Monroe Park on June 6.
Richmond Public Schools administration seeks to boost partnership with police. It also proposes a new 15-part safety plan with a pilot program that would require some students to lock up their cellphones in pouches during the school day.
The Richmond City School Board voted Monday night to authorize a third-party investigation of the circumstances leading up to the June 6 shooting death of an 18-year-old graduating student and his father outside of the Altria Theater after the Huguenot High School graduation.
Students and teachers at Huguenot High School were greeted by the Richmond community Friday, more than two months after June's graduation shooting.
A February trial date has been set for Amari Pollard, the 19-year-old charged with shooting Huguenot High School student Shawn Jackson outside of his high school graduation in Richmond on June 6.
The Richmond School Board on Monday night rejected a proposal to release an external investigation into the June 6 shooting death of an 18-year-old graduating student and his father outside of the Altria Theater after Huguenot High School’s graduation ceremony.
Richmond Public Schools previously denied the newspaper’s public records request for the report, saying that it is subject to the attorney-client privilege exemption laid out in Virginia’s public record laws.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch sued the school board to force it to release the results of an investigation that it paid a law firm to conduct over the June 6 shooting outside the theater following the Huguenot High School graduation ceremony.
The Richmond School Board must release the investigation it commissioned into last summer’s shooting outside the Altria Theater, a judge ruled on Tuesday afternoon.
In June 2022 Shawn Jackson's mother emailed school officials, including RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras, that "we are still homeless from our home being shot up by students in Huguenot."
The report released today by Richmond Public Schools contains a number of previously unknown details about Huguenot High School’s 2023 graduation shooting.
It is not yet clear whether there will be personnel changes in lower-level positions.
“When I heard the first gunshot, my only reaction was to tell my wife to get on the ground."
The trial against the suspect in the Huguenot graduation shooting last summer outside the Altria Theater started Monday.
Amari Pollard, 20, is the only suspect in the shooting at Huguenot High School's graduation last summer, where two people were killed and five others were injured. Pollard is charged with first-degree murder in connection with Shawn Jackson's death, and a separate felony offense for using a firearm. Pollard and Jackson had an "ongoing dispute," but police have never explained why only Pollard has been charged despite the number of victims. The trial is set to last five days, with a verdict expected on March 1.
The defendant in the Huguenot graduation shooting asked for protection from police, citing fear for his safety. Body-worn camera footage shows his frantic surrender to law enforcement.
Amari Pollard, charged with first-degree murder in the Huguenot graduation shooting, admitted to killing someone during a taped interview with police, authorities said.
Officials on Thursday released a video prepared by the FBI showing the moments before and after the shooting outside the Altria Theater in Jun…
Veteran Richmond-area defense attorney Jerry Zerkin said the decision by Amari Pollard's defense to take a plea deal Thursday afternoon is really not surprising.
In his 20-plus years as an officer, Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards has seen his share of heartbreak.
"It's just not something I can second-guess — there's nothing in this case that screams out innocence,” Marchant said.
The mother and wife of two Huguenot High School graduation shooting victims filed two federal lawsuits on Saturday seeking a total of $26 million in damages from Richmond Public Schools.
Denise Smith said she watched Amari Pollard point a gun at his head and pull the trigger. But it didn't go off. The clicking sound is seared into her mind.
