3 separate shootings leave Henrico HS student, 24-year-old man dead; black bear spotted in Henrico’s Far West End

Henrico Newsflash – May 20, 2022

May 20, 2022

3 separate shootings leave Henrico HS student, 24-year-old man dead, home damaged

Three separate shootings in Henrico County three miles apart during a 5-hour period May 19 left a Henrico High School student and a 24-year-old man dead and a residence damaged.

Henrico Police do not believe the shootings are related, Police Lt. Matt Pecka told the Citizen Friday.

PUBLIC SAFETY COVERAGE

Black bear spotted in Henrico’s Far West End

A Henrico resident spotted a black bear in the county’s Far West End, according to Henrico Police.

The sighting happened in the Foxhall community in Short Pump, which backs up to the Little Tuckahoe Creek near the county’s western edge, about a mile or so south of the West Broad Street-North Gayton Road intersection.

Missing Henrico man found with ‘significant injuries,’ taken to hospital

COVID-19 COVERAGE

Some Henrico children 5 to 11 now eligible for COVID-19 booster shots

CITIZEN ARCHIVES

For the love of one

This article originally appeared in the Henrico Citizen May 20, 2004.

In 1959, Prince Edward County, Va., closed its schools rather than integrate them. Many of the county’s black students would never attend school again. On the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that prompted that action, this is the story of the one Prince Edward student whose education continued in Henrico, and of the teachers responsible for bringing her here.

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