Richmond Interim Police Chief Rick Edwards said the shooting suspect, Amari Pollard, 19, knew Shawn Jackson and the two had been embroiled in a dispute for more than a year.
in Richmond, Virginia, targeted an 18-year-old graduate he had a long-running dispute with, police said Wednesday.
“This was targeted at one individual. ... That’s what we know at this time,” Edwards said during a news conference Wednesday. Jackson-Smith told The Associated Press that her and Smith’s 9-year-old daughter was hit by a car in the chaos that erupted afterward. The girl was treated for leg injuries and released from the hospital, Jackson-Smith said.
“He was just running and shooting. I had my daughter beside me and I saw her get hit by a car. My niece almost got hit by a car. I was trying to grab them,” she said. A federal judge in Virginia ruled last month that a federal law banning licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 violates the Second Amendment and is unconstitutional. The Justice Department has filed a motion asking the judge to put any injunction he may order on hold until the government decides whether to appeal his ruling and until any appeal is decided.
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