GALLERY: Mass shooting after Richmond graduation ceremony
From the Richmond graduation shooting: Complete coverage series
Cars and police gather around Altria Theater, the site of a shooting after the Huguenot High School graduation in Richmond on June 6.
Richmond Interim Chief of Police Rick Edwards gives a press briefing about a shooting that happened at the Huguenot graduation on June 6, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES DISPATCH
Mayor Levar Stoney gives a press conference nearby the site of a shooting that happened at the Huguenot graduation on June 6, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES DISPATCH
Richmond police officer Lawrence Read looks on as a car is towed near the scene of a shooting at the Huguenot High School graduation on Tuesday, June 6.
A car is towed near the scene of a shooting at the Huguenot High School graduation on Tuesday, June 6.
Richmond police officer Lawrence Read ties police tape together near the scene of a shooting at the Huguenot High School graduation on Tuesday, June 6.
Police tape cordons off the area near the scene of a shooting at the Huguenot High School graduation on Tuesday, June 6.
Police tape cordons off Monroe Park and the Altria Theater following the fatal shooting after Huguenot High School’s graduation ceremony on June 6.
Police gather on the intersection of Franklin and Belvidiere streets after a shooting after the Huguenot High School graduation on Tuesday.Â
A man in graduation regalia speaks on the phone surrounded by police after the Huguenot High School graduation Tuesday in Richmond.
Police respond to the area around Monroe Park following the fatal shooting after Huguenot High School’s graduation ceremony on June 6.
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears speaks Tuesday evening after the shooting at the Huguenot High School graduation.
A car is towed from near the scene of a shooting that happened during the Huguenot High School graduation on June 6, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
A Richmond Police vehicle drives up West Franklin Street by Monroe Park and Altria Theater where a shooting occurred.
Richmond interim Chief of Police Rick Edwards speaks to the media after a shooting outside the Altria Theater following Huguenot High’s graduation on June 6.
Rick Edwards, the interim chief of the Richmond Police Department, speaks to the media on June 6 after a shooting outside the Altria Theater following Huguenot High School’s commencement ceremony. An 18-year-old graduate and his stepfather were killed.
Richmond Interim Chief of Police Rick Edwards speaks to the media following a shooting after the Huguenot High School graduation at the Altria Theater on June 6.
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Richmond graduation shooting: Complete coverage
An 18-year-old graduating student and a 36-year-old man were shot and killed outside Richmond's Altria Theater on Tuesday evening.
Two men were shot dead outside the Altria Theater near Monroe Park on Tuesday afternoon following a Richmond Public Schools graduation ceremony.
Fifty-eight school shootings have happened in Virginia since 1971, according to The Violence Project, a nonprofit group that tracks K-12 school shootings.
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.
Amari Ty-Jon Pollard was arraigned in Richmond General District Court on two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the shooting.
The shooting left two dead and five more injured, one with life-threatening conditions.
Officials reacted Tuesday to a shooting in Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony:
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.
This is continuing Times-Dispatch coverage of a shooting that killed two after a Richmond high school graduation ceremony.Â
The graduation ceremony has joined the grocery store, the schoolhouse and the house of worship among spaces that can no longer be assumed safe.Â
Four days after a deadly shooting took place at the Altria Theater, performances are still planned at the theater for this weekend.
Richmond students and families are experiencing a myriad of emotions.
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.
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 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 trial against the suspect in the Huguenot graduation shooting last summer outside the Altria Theater started Monday.Â
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.
