The How: Knife. Shotgun. 9 mm. Hands.
The Why: Drugs. Argument. Gun sale gone bad.
The When: At least one a month, with five each in August, November and December.
But at the heart of what detectives endeavor to uncover, amid the weapons, motives, times and places, is who. Who did it, and who was left behind.
In Richmond, there were 39 homicide victims in 2015. Police say the oldest was Wilton Kimbrough, a 60-year-old killed with a knife in the 1500 block of North 19th Street. The youngest was 1, Lakayla Robinson, a baby girl who died from being shaken in the 900 block of State Street.
Of the victims, 35 were black, three were white, one was Hispanic. There were 33 men and six women. And 15 of them, or 38 percent, were black men who died before seeing their 30th birthdays. Here are their names.
Walter M. Robinson III, 23, Jan. 27
Lynnette F. Gregory, 35, Feb. 7
Pamela A. Knyazher, 19, March 14
Frizzell A. Belton, 41, March 15
David L. Briggs, 28, March 29
Rolan S. Angaroo, 29, April 19
Sylvester T. Nichols, 24, May 7
Ra’Keem D. Adkins, 22, May 7
Juan V. Dehaney, 36, May 16
Deaullandy G. Coleman Sr., 58, May 29
Woodrow E. Anstead, 38, May 31
Diego S. Brown, 35, June 11
Ricky E. Miles, 48, June 22
Dante L. Suber, 35, June 24
Kempton D. Moore, 22, June 27
Benjamin E. Alston, 29, July 14
Davie L. Young, 26, July 24
Bashawn Boyd, 22, July 25
Brandon Harvey, 25, Aug. 10
Matthias J. Washington, 34, Aug. 18
Almon L. Winston, 37, Aug. 22
Rashamella L. Willingham, 28, Aug. 23
William S. White, 31, Aug. 23
Lakayla Robinson, 1, Sept. 7
Jawaun L. Hargrove, 33, Sept. 9
Anthony D. Addison, 21, Sept. 9
William E. Crutchfield, 34, Oct. 4
Muhammed Abu-Bakr, 57, Oct. 17
Mark A. Jefferson, 28, Oct. 25
Rolando D. Salas, 30, Nov. 10
Ashley M. Davis, 33, Nov. 16
Frank M. McCray, 49, Nov. 16
Misael E. Maldonado-Garcia, 30, Nov. 28
Wilton Kimbrough, 60, Nov. 28
Louis R. Bullock, 21, Dec. 9
Anthony C. Herndon, 42, Dec. 19
JaQuan Clark, 18, Dec. 19
Amiya Moses, 12, Dec. 19
Trequan C. Delmont Holmes, 18, Dec. 24.
