Oyana Carlyle

In the summer of 2017, the life of a young woman was tragically cut short in a wave of violence that had been plaguing the city of Richmond, Virginia. Oyana T. Carlyle, a 27-year-old Black female, was fatally wounded by gunfire on the evening of August 23, 2017. The shooting occurred in the Creighton neighborhood, a community in the city's East End that had seen a distressing increase in violent crime.

The incident in which Oyana Carlyle was killed was a double shooting, leaving another w ...

Woman dies after shooting in Richmond; suspect remains on the run

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