Police are investigating the death of a young Petersburg man who was fatally shot in the city early Thursday afternoon.
Officers responded about 1:12 p.m. to the 1600 block of Lincoln Street after receiving a report of a person shot. Upon arrival, police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
The victim was identified as Brandson Williams, 20.
The killing is Petersburg’s 17th homicide of the year, which ties the record set by the city in 2018.
Williams’ fatal shooting remains under investigation.
Anyone with information about the killing is asked to call Petersburg/Dinwiddie Crime Solvers at (804) 861-1212. You can also use the P3 Tips app for smartphones or go to P3tips.com.
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Now that VA is a Democratic state the decades old inaction of republicans on gun laws (except to relax them) will be reversed and common sense gun control laws that have proven to result in fewer deaths like Cali and NY can move forward in VA.
Voters have seen the inadequacy of republican notions of gun control and found it wanting.
"common sense gun control laws that have proven to result in fewer deaths like Cali and NY can move forward in VA."
According to CDC in 2017 there were 2,022 homicides in California, 577 in New York, and 455 in Virginia.
Yep... that is how many per capita? Still much less likely to be shot in Cali or New York than in VA.
Putin’s useful idiot comrade Dennis continues to attempt to sway the poorly educated voters that Rump says he loves. And though he throws stats around he seldom provides a direct searchable quote or a link to his sources. That makes them suspect right there.
The only confirmed source for his info is the russian WikiBedia. Designed to look like Wikipedia so that Russians can feed fake news to Americans and sew discord among voters.
"And though he throws stats around he seldom provides a direct searchable quote or a link to his sources. " What reference did you use for your statement? Oh that's right: none. And you didn't specify per capita, you used straight numbers. Less likely to be shot in Cali or New York? You base that on your usual garbage logic. What is your source? My source was the CDC, but Drake still doesn't know the difference between the CDC and the FSB.
I didn’t specify anything above that didn’t show per capita.
But I’m glad you asked... everything I put I quotes is a QUOTE. For the poorly educated voters that Rump says he loves that means you can google it.
Here are my sources.... please provide YOUR link to the CDC .... NOT the fake news Russian wikiBedia that you quoted before.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/02/15/11004-gun-murders-us-vs-26-equiv-130-england-annually?amp
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/02/27/states-with-strict-gun-laws-have-fewer-firearms-deaths-heres-how-your-state-stacks-up.html
CDC WISQARS https://webapp.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe And please Drake, learn the difference between the CDC and the FSB. Your ignorance is risible.
You didn't show anything that specified per capita.
Every time the gun prohibitionists get another rights restricting, gun control law enacted, they make claims of how it will keep criminals or the mentally ill from getting guns or how it will solve “gun violence”. All it requires is that we law-abiding Americans give up another chunk of our rights, because the criminals and mentally ill won’t obey the laws. Yes the logic of the gun banners is: if we restrict the rights of the law-abiding by passing laws, we control the behavior of the criminals, who won’t obey those laws. --- Meanwhile back on the streets; the criminals are ever so grateful to the gun banners for making their working environment safer (for them).
BUT! What happens when those laws don’t stop the criminals and mentally ill from getting guns? Do we repeal the laws that don’t work? Oh heavens NO! We demand MORE gun laws, to further restrict the rights and liberty of the law-abiding Americans. And when those don’t work, we demand even MORE gun control laws to screw the law-abiding Americans.
The gun prohibitionists will not relent until the Bill of Rights becomes the Bill of Privileges, totally controlled by the government, like in those “other first world democracies”.
“How would we know in VA since the republicans have been stonewalling such legislation for decades?
Virginians have wised up and seen republicans sitting on their thumbs and offering “thoughts and prayers, or literally running away from the issue, and deemed it insufficient.
Now democrats will enact the common sense relatively moderate l life saving gun control laws that the republicans continually eschewed. And when fewer Virginians are dying then further progress should be made along the gun control path.
At least until we achieve the astoundingly better outcomes of tough common sense gun control democracies like England.
“11,004 Gun Murders in US vs. 26 (equiv. 130) in England Annually”
"“How would we know in VA since the republicans have been stonewalling such legislation for decades?"
Because every time that gun control laws have been enacted in the past, we were promised that it would work, that it stop the criminals from getting guns and stop the criminal behavior. Here we are again, with the same promises and more of the same BS laws, except they take more our rights, more of our property, and more of our liberty. But not to worry! The gun banners aren't going to take our guns (well, not all of them -- yet). It will take a little longer for them to get to that. And they promise they won't take our right of armed self-defense -- until they get to it.
“ we were promised that it would work,“
And, in fact, the states with the toughest gun laws have far fewer PER CAPITA shootings compared to the states with the weakest (see above).
And of course, large democracies with consistent national common sense gun control laws have ASTRONOMICALLY fewer shootings.
“11,004 Gun Murders in US vs. 26 (equiv. 130) in England Annually”
p.s. your groundless predictions are just that, Nostradamus, groundless. Meanwhile your “concerns” needlessly cost 40,000 American lives a year.
More laws will not make a difference, Drake. Criminals and crazies DON'T OBEY LAWS. Why is that so hard to comprehend? And stop trying to pin these crimes on innocent Republicans. Most of the perps and victims vote Democrat. This murder will continue until law enforcement initiates Stop and Frisk, or the citizens of the community restore the family structure.
They have criminals and crazies in England, Rick. But you know what they DON'T have, thanks to common sense gun control laws? They DON'T have 11,000 citizens murderd by guns each year.. .they have far far fewer - 130.
“11,004 Gun Murders in US vs. 26 (equiv. 130) in England Annually”
I've showed you mine.. now you show me yours. On what voter registration source do you base your claim that "Most of the perps and victims vote Democrat"... especially since it is the republicans who support them getting their hands on guns?
They don’t have common sense guns laws in England they have a ban on guns. Your knowledge of British laws is pretty weak but you will use that as your example in every post you make. England has its fair share of violent crimes and most are with knives.
People in England can own guns. What’s the basis of your fake news claims?
Another poor citizen of VA dead at the end of a gun barrel because Republicans only offer thoughts and prayers.
Well now VA has gone Democratic and they will not turn tail and run from the issue the way Norment and Cox did over the summer and which cost them the GA. Dems will give us votes and laws aimed at reducing the number of shootings in VA.
Fewer guns = fewer gun deaths
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