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Volume 57, Number 40 • October 7, 2010
Alleged shooter in Goochland fatality free on bond Kwamane Davis charged with firstdegree murder By Bill McKelway Media General News Service
Photo by Ken Odor
Role player Libby Routson, above left, collects her first paycheck from Linda Bowles, who is playing her employer, at the Community Poverty Simulation. Last Friday about 40 people, some of whom are pictured below, participated in the simulation, which was sponsored by the Goochland Free Clinic and Family Services.
The paperwork of poverty Simulation brings problem closer to participants By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
One role player in a poverty simulation last Friday was Libby
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Routson, who portrayed a 19-yearold mother of a young toddler. Routson was affected by the simulation, in which she was supposed to be fresh out of a homeless shelter where she had been robbed. “I cried the second week,” said Routson, who has a 9-month-old at home herself.
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A Cumberland County man who is the only person arrested in a shootout in Goochland County last month that killed one man and wounded two others has been freed on bond. Henrico County jail records show that Kwamane G. Davis, 21, was released Saturday, less than 24 hours after a judge set a $100,000 bond for Davis, who is charged with first-degree murder and two other felonies. Judge Timothy K. Sanner of Goochland Circuit Court said at a hearing Friday that Davis is not to associate with gang members who might have precipitated a barrage of gunshots early Sept. 12 at a Goochland home that had been the site earlier that night of a baby shower. Davis also has to reside in a single dwelling place and must submit to regular tests
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for drug and alcohol use. Davis has no previous criminal record. He faces a preliminary hearing in December in the death of Dwayne Hardy, 24, whom Davis is accused of firing on twice with a shotgun, fatally wounding him in the back of the head. According to court testimony, Hardy had attacked a cousin of Davis’ seconds earlier, firing three shots from a .38 caliber handgun into Alvin Daniels’ back. Daniels survived but is paralyzed. Davis, joined by family members, turned himself in to Goochland authorities on Sept. 13. Court records show other shots also came from a passing vehicle, wounding a man in his car at the Hadensville-Fife Road home that had been the scene of a DJ dance party later the night of Sept. 11 after the baby shower. Goochland Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Nancy Oglesby said last week that the party attracted members of two rival gangs that have operated in the Goochland County area.
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