Richmond Police makes good on promise of arrests for celebratory gunfire

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — While some were ringing in the new year, gunshots were ringing out in Central Virginia, despite local police warning against celebratory gunfire just days prior.

The Richmond Police Department (RPD) received dozens of calls for random gunfire on the new year’s holiday. RPD took in one man just hours into 2026, thanks to his own social media post.

That suspect was 40-year-old William McGriff, who livestreamed himself firing rounds into the air on his Facebook account around midnight on Jan. 1…

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