In the early morning hours of April 26, 2013, the quiet Buren Street in Hopewell, Virginia, was shattered by the sound of gunshots. Inside his home, Richard Miles Hawthorne Jr., a 41-year-old Black male, was fatally wounded. An armed intruder had broken into the residence just before 6 a.m. When Hawthorne confronted the individual, the encounter turned deadly, and he was shot and killed, with his mother mere feet away. This violent act marked the first homicide of the year in the city of Hopewel
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