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Vol. 27, No. 7 | Richmond Suburban Newspapers | June 16, 2010
Fugitive shot girlfriend 6 times
Earnest, Hannon lead PHHS WHERE’S JERRY? By Melody Kinser mkinser@mechlocal.com (Editor’s note: A four-part series on the valedictorians and salutatorians in Hanover County Public Schools concludes today with Patrick Henry High School. Members of the Class of 2010 will graduate on Saturday, June 19, at the Siegel Center at VCU.) melia Earnest hasn’t quite decided what her major will be when she heads to college in the fall. But the next step in her education is a significant one: She is going to Yale University. With a grade point average of 4.67, Patrick Henry High School’s valedictorian said she is interested in political science and international relations. She also enjoys traveling and has a goal of studying abroad. The daughter of Brian and Rebecca Keller of Montpelier and John Earnest of Ashland serves as president of the National Latin Club and treasurer of the Model U.N. She is a member of Junior Classical League, International Thespian Society, National Forensics League, Varsity Club, Student Organization Development Attitudes (SODA), varsity volleyball team, Emerging Leaders, Patrick Henry Promise, National Honor
By Melody Kinser mkinser@mechlocal.com
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Photos submitted by Amelia Earnest and Sydney Hannon
Amelia Earnest, photo at left, Patrick Henry High School valedictorian, hopes to continue her volleyball career at Yale University. Salutatorian Sydney Hannon, right, poses on the slopes during a ski trip. For this series, Hanover County Public Schools’ honor students were asked to provide a favorite photo.
Society and National Beta Club. Through SODA, she helps “write and teach lesson plans to fourth-graders twice a month” throughout most of the school year. Working with Patrick Henry Promise provides an opportunity to “hang out with mentally and physically handicapped students.” Amelia said they “do
crafts and stuff ” while spending time with their peers. She participated in the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s Youth Tour Trip to Washington, D.C., her senior year. An IB Diploma candidate, Amelia has been named a Hanover Scholar, see PHHS, pg. 4 `
Hanover supervisors adopt revised noise ordinance By Jim Ridolphi For The Mechanicsville Local Can you hear me now? Last Wednesday, Hanover
County residents voiced their nance, and allows the county of Supervisors adopted several opinions on proposed ordi- to implement civil penalties to changes to a 30-year-old ordinance that are designed to clarinance changes that update the violators. see NOISE, pg. 4 ` The Hanover County Board county’s current noise ordi-
Stacie Harvey Breaker has three reminders of the events of Jan. 29, 1999. When her former boyfriend, Jerry Otis Robinson, unloaded a .22 caliber pistol, six bullets The accused struck h e r . To d a y, three re m ai n lodged in her body. After shooting JERRY OTIS ROBINSON Stacie and then attempting to strangle her, Jerry fled the apartment they had shared at Mill Trace Village Apartments. He has been a fugitive since he tried to kill the woman he had at one time planned to make his wife.
JERRY OTIS ROBINSON Anyone with information on the Jan. 29, 1999, shooting can call 365-6110 or visit www.hanoversheriff.com
Last Wednesday, Stacie talked about that night and her determination to have her day in court. Financial issues erupted between the couple, prompting Stacie to leave move out of the apartment a couple of weeks before the shooting. “I went back to discuss what we were going to do with the apartment, because the lease wasn’t over yet.” Jerry was still living in the apartment. “I got The victim off work about 5 and we met for dinner. We were going to discuss everySTACIE HARVEY thing we BREAKER needed to do for the apartment. We still had something like four months on the lease.” She said Jerry was “very detail oriented, so I wrote up a little contract and he didn’t like it. Then he got kind of angry.” She said she told him, “ ‘You fix it any way you want to, I’m going home.’ That’s when he stood in front of the door and wouldn’t let me leave.” see JERRY, pg. 8 `