Councilman Jewell’s newphew arrested for VUU shooting
A Richmond city councilman’s nephew is being held without bond today in the malicious wounding of a Virginia Union University student early Sunday.
Jamir Lee Jewell, whose uncle is Councilman E. Martin Jewell, was arrested Sunday about 1:15 a.m. — minutes after a student was shot in front of Newman Hall, an all-female dormitory on the northern edge of campus near Brook and Graham roads. Jamir Jewell is not a VUU student.
A couple of interesting takeaways from the article:
- “At least a half-dozen students have been shot or stabbed on or near the VUU campus in the past decade, according to news reports. The school has sought for years to control access to the campus, especially from nearby neighborhoods with histories of violence. A fence encircling the campus is under construction.” Is this a “large” number? What is the number for VCU?
- The article criticises VUU’s emergency alert system: alerts went out a half an hour after Jewell had been arrested.
- 2/3 of the officers who responded are not authorized to cary weapons but still managed to contain the situation.
The new fence makes it hard to take shortcuts through campus.
Someone asked if this is a high number?
My response would be “not necessarily.” But I question where the writer got the “six” from? Official police reports? What? Are they asking about on campus only or near campus as well. There are many factors that can lead to elevated crime rates in certain places, so we would need more than just a comparison to VCU.
Didn’t fight start on 800 W Lancaster and then the kids went back to the campus. What were the VUU kids doing on Lancaster? The 800 block of W Lancaster is know for drug dealing. I think there was article on NRN about someone getting shot in the head.
exactly it started on lancaster, they shouldnt had been down there, we used to live around there and its a horrible area.
where there are rebuplican leadership there are criminals