Because they don’t want their graduating seniors (their ceremony was scheduled in the same venue, later this evening) shot to pieces, the way the Huguenot High School seniors are currently being gunned down.
What will the end of public life in America be like? Looks as though we’re going to find out.
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What’ll it be? UD‘s putting her money on a student who was expelled and feels disrespected.
Oh, wait. They say there were two shooters. Maybe a gang thing.
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Richmond has long had a humongous murder rate.
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Ok, so now they say it was indeed just one person. Who brought multiple weapons and might have targeted one of the murdered people – a just-graduated student – in particular, but seems to have been happy to spray the crowd too.
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The Graduation Day shooting was just one of a handful of violent acts this week that left 12 people shot in Richmond over a 72-hour span.