Wednesday, June 3, 2009

chimborazo day

Mount Chimborazo - Equador

Beautiful day on the darn mountain that would not let us make summit.

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UPDATE: Arrest in shooting at Chimborazo Elementary School (NBC 12 Richmond)
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - A Richmond school playground becomes the scene of a deadly shooting. It happened last night, while parents & students were on campus for an after school event. This afternoon, police have determined the shooting a homicide and have a suspect in custody.

Man charged in shooting on Richmond school playground (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Richmond school officials said they are trying to make the school day as normal as possible at Chimborazo Elementary School, where a man was shot and killed on a playground last night.

Richmond man is charged in slaying outside East End school (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Authorities believe an argument over a piece of personal property led to Wednesday night’s fatal shooting on a playground outside Chimborazo Elementary School in Richmond’s East End. Police charged Anthony Singleton, 20, of the 100 block of West Leigh Street in Richmond with first-degree murder in the death of Thomas H. Scott Jr., a 20-year-old father of two sons.

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Man charged in shooting on Richmond school playground - Richmond Times Dispatch  By Staff Reports Richmond school officials said they are trying to make the school day as normal as possible at Chimborazo Elementary School, where a man was shot and killed on a playground last night. “This should be a safe haven,“ Sharon Scott, ...

Richmond man is charged in slaying outside East End school - Richmond Times Dispatch  ... to make yesterday a normal school day for students and staff, despite the violence of the night before. "This should be a safe haven," Sharon Scott, chief of safety and security for city schools, said yesterday morning at Chimborazo Elementary. ...

The Sojourner - Richmond.com  From Chimborazo Park, we counted train cars. Jon put rum into the French toast Sunday mornings. I was getting ready to go into business school and Jon was going into the MFA program. We moved in smaller and smaller circles, until eventually reaching ...

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