Charles Garner

On a tragic day in Richmond, Virginia, 59-year-old Charles Wilburn Garner, an African American male, was brutally murdered. The date was October 5, 1979, when his life was violently taken alongside his 75-year-old landlord, Blanche Page. The horrific scene unfolded in Page's residence, a place that should have been a sanctuary.

The assailants, a group of individuals later identified as the Briley brothers—Linwood, James, and Anthony—along with an accomplice, Duncan Meekins, descended ...