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Volume 57, Number 43 • November 3, 2011
Cumberland man pleads guilty in deadly Hadensville shooting Kwamane Davis found guilty of voluntary manslaughter By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
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Krista, 11, left, and her sister Haley McCormick, 9, sport their Halloween faces after a session at Miss Lillie’s Face Painting station at the Goochland Fall Festival. Krista was a vampire ballerina, she said. Haley was a Gothic cheerleader.
Goochland Fall Festival draws 2,000 By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Rainy weather postponed this year’s Fall Festival until Sunday but the turnout was still good, said Recreation and Parks and Facilities Management Director Derek Stamey. Michele Nixon and Drive provided lively musical entertainment as the estimated 2,000 visitors enjoyed the sunny seasonal weather at the old Goochland High School football field.
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A petting zoo, pony rides, Halloween crafts and a costume contest were all a part of the afternoon. Two youngsters dressed as Lego characters won the prize for most original outfits. Games in abundance were available for the kids’ amusement. An ever popular one was the bell ringer. Katherine Elliot, 5, almost rang the bell. “I was pretty impressed,” said her mom, Maygan, “She got it up higher than some other kids.” The festival was originally scheduled for Satuday.
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Kwamane Gordon Davis of Cumberland saw his cousin Alvin Daniels shot in the back three times at a late night party more than a year ago in western Goochland County. In retaliation, he picked up a shotgun and pursued the shooter, Dwayne Richard Hardy of Goochland, firing two shots. One shot killed Hardy, severing vertebrae in his neck and piercing his carotid artery, said Goochland Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Nancy Oglesby in Goochland County Circuit Court last week. Davis, 21, dressed in suit and tie, pled guilty to a charge of voluntary manslaughter. The plea agreement had been reached between his attorney, Shannon Taylor and the Goochland Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office prior to the court date, originally designated as the beginning of a two-day bench trial on a second degree murder charge.
The violence stemmed from a late night party in the 3600 block of Hadensville-Fife Road on Sept. 12, 2010. According to evidence summarized by Oglesby at the Oct. 26 hearing, more than 100 people were at the party, where a dance floor with a DJ had been set up outside. Earlier in the day a baby shower was held at the same address but there was no connection between the two events, said Oglesby. Many of those at the party had been drinking and although the prosecution had interviewed 16 witnesses, accounts of what happened varied greatly, said Oglesby, with witnesses mostly divided into opposing camps. What was clear is that two rival groups arrived at the event. The “Dogtown Boys” and the “Cartersville Gangsters,”alsoknownasthe“Central Virginia Gangsters” had been feuding since high school days but a truce had been called a week before. But Hardy, a Dogtown member and Alvin Daniels of the Cartersville group, had not heard of the truce and began arguing. Hardy then produced a handgun and pointed it at Daniels.
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