Police said one of the people who was killed was an 18-year-old male student who had just graduated, while the other was a 36-year-old man who was there for the graduation.
Two men are dead in a shooting after a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond. Police said five others were wounded and a 19-year-old suspect is currently being charged with second-degree murder.
"As they heard the gunfire, it was obviously chaos," Edwards said. "We had hundreds of people in Monroe Park, so people scattered. It was very chaotic at the scene."A 19-year-old shot seven people, and killed two of them, police said, following a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond.
"This should have been a safe space. People should have felt safe at a graduation," Edwards said. "It's just incredibly tragic that someone decided to bring a gun to this incident and rain terror on our community." Two people were taken into custody after the incident, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards initially said at an earlier news conference. One of those individuals was later released.Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney vowed to ensure anyone responsible faces justice.Officers inside the theater, where the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School was taking place, heard gunfire around 5:15 p.m. and radioed to police stationed outside, who found multiple victims, Edwards said.
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