Mayor Mourns 2013 Homicide Victims, But Notes Progress

Jan. 3, 2014 / By

RP Editors

At her last Meet With the Mayor session of 2013, on December 20, Mayor Gayle McLaughlin led a moment of reflection to honor the 16 lives lost to homicide in Richmond this year. A small group gathered in a room at the Richmond Public Library, and with a candle burning in the center of the room, McLaughlin read the names of all those whose life was cut short, many of them young people:

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