Courtesy of Richmond Times
Dispatch by Jeremy Slayton
Man arrested
in shooting early Sunday at
Virginia Union
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Published:
August 30, 2009
A 21-year-old
man is in
custody after an
early morning
shooting today
on the campus of
Virginia Union
University.
Richmond police say they received calls about a shooting shortly before 1 a.m. and found a male victim shot several times in the leg outside Newman Hall. He was transported to VCU Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. Police said Jimar Jewell of the 800 block of Lancaster Street, was arrested a short time later. He is charged with malicious wounding and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. |
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Published:
August 31, 2009 A man charged with shooting and wounding a Virginia Union University student early yesterday morning is City Councilman E. Marty Jewell's nephew. Jewell, a VUU graduate, said this afternoon that he is stunned by developments in the case but declined to comment beyond saying that Jimar Jewell, 21, is his sister's son. VUU Police Chief David Horace said today that Jimar Jewell is believed to be the shooter in an incident shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday in front of a VUU dormitory in which a student was shot three times in the left leg after a large crowd of people gathered and an argument broke out. Campus police officers were among the crowd when the shooting occurred, he said. Jimar Jewell made an initial appearance in Richmond General District Court this morning. He is charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm. Two other suspects in the case are still unaccounted for. Police recovered the weapon. Chief Horace
said that he
talked to the
victim shortly
after surgery at
VCU Medical
Center early
yesterday
morning and that
the student said
he was not
familiar with
his attackers.
The student, who
is not being
identified by
the university,
is expected to
be released
within the next
day, Chief
Horace said. |
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