RICHMOND, Va. — City leaders are responding to a weekend shooting that claimed the life of a teenage boy and injured two other women, saying it happened at the epicenter of a community-wide effort to turn the tide against gun violence.
Richmond Police are not sharing the name of the victim, but Richmond Public Schools confirmed the 16-year-old was an 11 th grader with the district, and received schooling through “private placement,” meaning he did not physically attend an RPS high school.
Cruz Sherman, a community advocate, was called to the Belt Atlantic Apartments just after the shooting Saturday night. He said the shooting stemmed from what he called a “senseless argument.”
“With the emotions, with the guns, that is a recipe for disaster, and we saw that with the incident last night,” Sherman told CBS 6 Sunday afternoon.
Police say two women were taken to the hospital as a result of the shooting. Crime Insider sources say they have both been released.
CBS 6 was told that one of the women was a bystander.