2010.06.02 03:42 kbrower Norfolk, Virginia - NFK - /r/norfolk
2023.05.29 02:53 fourleggedtable Tracking Murders in Norfolk, Part 14 (Also Delayed)
![]() | Good evening, submitted by fourleggedtable to norfolk [link] [comments] Early in the morning of 14 May 2023, in my opinion late at night on 13 MAY 2023, a triple shooting occurred on the 2700 block of Killam Ave. This incident resulted in the death of Davrion King, 20 years old. https://www.wtkr.com/news/man-dies-after-triple-shooting-on-killam-avenue https://www.wavy.com/news/norfolk-police-investigating-triple-shooting-on-killam-ave/ After about 1/3 of a year with no data points in the western part of the city, there have been two this month. A few observations: - Davrion King was the second person killed in May. His death puts the monthly average age at 22.5, as the only other person killed was 25 years old. The worst month of the year so far was April, with 6 murders. - King's death puts the average for the year at 30.2. The number continues to drop during the warm weather months; thru March, the average age was 40. Also staying steady is the preponderance of men. 12 of the 14 persons killed have been men. - Along with the first three months' average age being 40, the average age for April and May so far has been 22.8. This reversal would be fascinating if it wasn't quite grim, too. - Why the sudden double-incident near ODU? I have nothing but guesses. Perhaps ODU PD has less of a presence now that students are out of session? Perhaps incidents are more likely when one has occurred nearby, like April's two incidents up in Norview? Does a temporary of non-students (who may be back home) lead to a higher likelihood of issues? I have nothing to go on, it's just weird. - A commenter on the last post suggested to me trying to put these on a Google Map. I may try that next time, or maybe I won't. I don't know, it sounds like extra work, but I also shouldn't be fussy about change. Be safe! Make good decisions! |
2023.05.27 00:12 fourleggedtable Tracking Murders in Norfolk, Part 13 (Delayed)
![]() | Good evening, submitted by fourleggedtable to norfolk [link] [comments] Late at night on 11 MAY 2023, two people were shot inside the 7-11 Store at the corner of 26th and Hampton Blvd. One was an employee, who survived, but the other was Walter Painter, a 25-year-old man. This feels like a weird situation that could use more details, but the initial Pilot article below barely gives any facts beyond what I have above. The WAVY article has an interview with his mother, but it mostly talks about how she has no solid information about what happened. https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-norfolk-fatal-shooting-20230512-ro4q7nhyxne7dmh5nol5l5loae-story.html https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/norfolk/norfolk-pd-investigating-homicide-at-7-eleven/ This shooting was the western-most of those in 2023. A few observations: - I must firstly apologize for the delay in the latest update. This incident happened two weeks ago but I am just now posting on it. This was a result of being out of town for a couple weeks. It looks like another murder occurred on 14 MAY, so I will be looking into that next. - Walter Painter was the 13th person killed in Norfolk in 2023, and the first in May that I found. If anything else happened besides 14/15 MAY 2023 on Killam Ave, please post it in the comments. - As April ends, it was the worst month of the year so far, with the first four months as: January - 2, February - 3, March - 1, April - 6. - Walter Painter's death at age 25 takes the average age for the year to 31. As this was the first of May, that average stands at 25, significantly older than the early 20s of April, though with a sample size of one. - Gender trends continue over the year, as men represent 11 of the 13 killed in 2023. - I will withhold much further commentary until the next post, which will cover the shooting on 14 MAY 2023. - Separately, arrests were made in two incidents logged in 2023. First, a suspect in an April murder in our Huntersville hot spot was arrested after a police chase. https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-norfolk-police-pursuit-20230504-lloj3nqeo5auvagr4vbjpckie4-story.html - Also, a suspect was arrested in the case of one of the two women killed this year, also during April, your northern-most data point. https://www.wtkr.com/news/crime/man-29-charged-in-womans-april-shooting-death-in-norfolks-ocean-view-area Be safe! Make good decisions! |
2023.05.20 14:11 awakeonemore Virginia ABC reports 'statistically abnormal' results of recent bourbon lottery
2023.05.02 23:41 Loud-Nature Unlicensed contractors a concern for Virginia Beach residents with tornado damage - News 3 WTKR Norfolk
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2023.04.29 23:46 fourleggedtable Tracking Murders in Norfolk, Part 12
![]() | Good afternoon, submitted by fourleggedtable to norfolk [link] [comments] Late last night or early this morning, at around 5:00 a.m., 18-year old Jabari C. Smith was found dead by police. Police were called to an address on Norchester Ave but they figured out that the shooting actually occurred in 3300 block of E. Princess Anne Rd, about 1/2 mile away. This is roughly the intersection of Princess Anne Rd. and Ingleside Rd. It was difficult to look up even possible info/background on him, in great part because he shares a name with an NBA player. https://www.pilotonline.com/news/crime/vp-nw-norfolk-shooting-20230429-dewh4r55grguffznsbqva3hcim-story.html https://www.wtkr.com/news/man-shot-killed-in-norfolk-police https://preview.redd.it/6tdt0bdh6wwa1.png?width=808&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee64c92a0e987d32a6cfa6c3e04d475ebaaae84a A few observations: - Jabari Smith was the 12th person killed in Norfolk in 2023 and the 6th in April. Not to be too obvious, but April (6 murders) has now equaled the first three months of the year. - The average age of those killed in the city now is at 31.5. Ten of the twelve have been men. - Again, the April average is quite different than the first quarter of the year. The April average is at 23, even lower if you only count the men (21.2, since the oldest person of April was a woman). - This could be seen as a geographic outlier from earlier incidents, but I would make the case that it may not be in a human activities sense. The proximity of the Wawa and the Waffle House both could act as late-night / early-morning magnets from the areas further west that have been hot spots in the past. Or it's just the outlier that it seems, I don't know. I don't mean this as a dire warning against those facilities; I go to that Wawa all the time. - If we are looking for good news, there has not been a killing logged in the Southside (Campostella/Berkeley) since the middle of winter, and still nothing in the southeast and northwest corners of the city. Be safe, and make good decisions. |
2023.04.24 19:18 Bright-Hat-6405 What happened to 12 year old Sean Daughtery?
2023.04.23 06:00 toadete Read the room
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2023.04.17 20:58 Q-BASE-Noob Skysha Nettles, The Chesapeake Police Officer charged with forging a suspect's signature on court summons will likely not see the inside of a jail cell. https://www.wtkr.com/news/chesapeake-officer-charged-for-forging-summons-enters-plea-deal
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2023.04.17 19:33 ausdis Builders name $130 million Hampton development 'Trilogy,' mayor says it would help meet growing housing needs - News 3 WTKR Norfolk
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2023.04.14 22:47 runup98 Defense seeks plea agreement for mom of 6-year-old accused of shooting Richneck teacher
2023.04.04 03:30 Hot-Plum-874 I understand that it may be difficult to win a lawsuit against the school, but why are licenses not being yanked.
2023.03.23 12:24 BigShotProducer NEWSHEALTH 40 cases of drug-resistant fungus currently in Virginia, health department says
submitted by BigShotProducer to Virginia [link] [comments]2023.03.01 20:16 BPBAttacks3 MARCH 2023 - - LIST OF PIT BULL ATTACKS/FATALITIES (ongoing)
2023.03.01 01:16 hat-trick2435 News 3 WTKR Norfolk: Chesapeake School Board votes 'After School Satan Club' can stay
2023.02.20 19:00 AdUpstairs7106 If you have a good idea both sides of an issue can support it
submitted by AdUpstairs7106 to guninsights [link] [comments]2023.02.18 22:19 starfishpounding https://www.wtkr.com/news/nra-gun-control-groups-find-common-ground-on-gun-safety-bill
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2023.02.17 22:24 AUWarEagle82 Student brings handgun to Little Creek Elem. in Norfolk: Police
2023.02.17 15:15 BigShotProducer Remember that wipe you flushed down the toilet? This could be it now
2023.02.14 19:05 Emp_has_no_clothes We are a nation were The Satan Club is the voice of reason and tolerance.
2023.02.10 13:52 Plenty_Ad7850 First time posting, pretty sure ballen spent some time down in vb during his time with the military, thought you guys would like this
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2023.02.07 01:15 BZBMom How many more teachers are going to have to be shot or hurt before Administrators start actually doing their jobs?
2023.01.18 18:39 someoneLeftUs Iran condemns police killing of African-American man in California by shooting with a taser on him to death for 1 minute long over typical "drug usage" accusations
Another day and another Black man is mercilessly killed in the United States.
Nothing screams louder about White supremacy in the country than the endless cycle of violence by trigger-happy law enforcement agencies targeting Black Americans and the pervasive impunity for it.
This time, 31-year-old high school teacher Keenan Anderson, who was involved in a traffic incident, was pinned down in the middle of a street by Los Angeles police and tased to death.
The body cam footage released by police shows Anderson walking away from an officer who asks him to get on his knees. He then pleads for help as a group of officers handcuff him.
At one point, he angrily but helplessly shouts, "they are trying to George Floyd me".
Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, was murdered in a similar fashion by a White police officer, Derek Chauvin, in May 2020 in the US city of Minneapolis. Chauvin pinned Floyd to the ground with a knee on his neck as he repeatedly said he could not breathe.
Floyd's tragic killing became a symbol of police brutality in the US and provided a fresh impetus to the movement for racial justice. Anderson's murder again proves that lessons have not been learned.
Anderson, the cousin of a Black Lives Movement co-founder Patrisse Cullors, is heard asking for help in the body cam footage. "They are trying to kill me," he screams. "Please don't do this, sir!"
Simply put, what the high school teacher was saying was “don’t kill me.” It is indeed shocking that a person has to fear for his life for simply being involved in a traffic incident.
However, the fear that Anderson displayed at that fateful moment is commonly found in people of color in the US, especially among Black men. They live on the edge and constantly worry about becoming the next victims, reduced to cold statistics.
Before Anderson was repeatedly tased by the Los Angeles police, which led to his death, two other Black men – Takar Smith and Oscar Sanchez – were fatally shot by police in just over 24 hours.
There are a plethora of reasons why Black men in the US live in fear and die in fear.
They are three times more likely than White men to be killed by police during their lifetime, according to a 2020 study by researchers at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Other studies reveal more reasons why Black men in the US are particularly wary of the legal system in the country, as they are more likely to be charged and convicted of crimes and more likely to serve longer sentences in jail than their White counterparts.
A study by the New York University in May 2020, found that Black drivers were 20 percent more likely to be stopped by police than White drivers across the country.
Black people are also over seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder in the US than their White counterparts, as per a report by the National Registry of Exonerations, a University of California Irvine project, published in September 2022.
And they are 80 percent more likely to be innocent than others convicted of murder.
Also, Black Americans convicted of a crime received sentences 20.4 percent longer than their White counterparts, and in some US states such as Virginia, Black men were handed sentences 50 percent longer than their White counterparts, according to the UN Sentencing Commission and the Virginia State Crime Commission.
This is a system where clearly the color of one’s skin, determines if he or she is stopped, arrested, sentenced, tortured, abused, bullied, or even executed.
The settler colonial American society is finding it difficult to shake off its hideous history of stealing and exploiting lands and resources of the weak and vulnerable, and the terrorism inflicted on Black people.
These excesses, which were widely common during the period of slavery when millions of Black people were kidnapped, enslaved and shipped across the Atlantic to the US to help White European descendants create wealth and prosperity for themselves, have taken new forms and dimensions today.
The terrorism unleashed on the Black American community is brazenly justified in the name of law enforcement activities or judicial edicts, when it's clearly and precisely terrorism rooted in racism, which is covered in a veneer called liberty and justice.
On Monday, Americans marked another Martin Luther King Day, remembering the legendary civil right activist as well as the anthem of the civil rights movement in the 1960s - “We Shall Overcome”.
The iconic song states “we shall overcome someday". If it implies “overcoming the racist policies” of the US towards its Black citizens, truly we still are nowhere close to that point.
Instead of overcoming, Black Americans continue to repeat “Say His Name” for their compatriots murdered by the country’s police on flimsy and false pretexts, with killers getting away with their crimes.
Families of Black men continue to fear for their lives, worried about their safety, worried they might leave home and never return. This uncertainty has turned life itself into a living hell.
This is an everyday reality for Black families in the US, even in 2023, as they know the fate of their compatriots caught in the vicious cycle of police violence — while working, while driving, and while doing mundane jobs.
Being a Black American is in itself a criterion for getting in trouble or even getting killed.
Anderson's brutal murder, which has revived the horrifying memory of Floyd's killing, almost three years ago, is a moment of reckoning for the racial justice movement in the US.
It's time to say "enough is enough".