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He saw students fleeing in their graduation outfits and parents hugging children. “It materialized in a stampede,” he said.Īccording to police spokeswoman Tracy Walker, two people were treated for falls one juvenile was struck by a car and sustained injuries that were not life-threatening and 9 people were treated at the scene for minor injuries or anxiety.Īs he heard the gunshots and then sirens, neighbor John Willard, 69, stepped onto the balcony of his 18th-floor apartment to see what was happening below. “That prompted, as you would expect, hundreds of persons in an effort to flee the gunfire to return to the building,” Young said.

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School board member Jonathan Young told Richmond TV station WWBT that graduates and other attendees were exiting the theater when they heard about 20 gunshots in rapid succession. Richmond Public Schools said in a message on its website that the shooting took place in Monroe Park, which is across the street from the theater and adjacent to the college campus, after a graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School. This should not be happening anywhere,” Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney said at the news conference. “We’re going to do everything we can to bring the individuals who were involved in this to justice. The identities of those in custody and those injured were not immediately released. Police did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the community. and radioed to police stationed outside, who found multiple victims, Edwards said. Officers inside the theater heard gunfire around 5:15 p.m. At least 12 others were injured or treated for anxiety due to the mayhem.

Two suspects were arrested after the shooting near Virginia Commonwealth University, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said at a news conference. Seven people were shot, and three of them were left with life-threatening wounds, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater where a high school graduation ceremony had recently concluded, causing attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses reported.

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