Henrico teen charged in Richmond shooting deaths
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The teenager shot and killed moments after graduating from Huguenot High School in Richmond knew the person now charged with his murder, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said in a Wednesday morning update on the deadly shooting.
Shooting victim Shawn Jackson, 18, of Richmond, and shooting suspect Amari Pollard, 19, of Henrico, had an ongoing dispute, Edwards said, without going into detail about their previous interactions, but did mention the importance of parents keeping tabs on their children's social media.
"You can sometimes see a blinking red light of an incident like this occurring because the disputes start on social media, and they're magnified," he said. "Where you can be disrespected in a school setting, and maybe 30 people see it, it if it's online, thousands of people see it and that's how we can get to this point over what would typically be a trivial matter."
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