Oregon Hill Attack, Saved By Pepper Spray

I hope to have an update on this story soon. From the Times Dispatch: A woman used pepper spray late last night to fend off an attacker in Richmond’s Oregon Hill area. Richmond police Capt. Dave Martin said the 18-year-old victim “was a little scraped up but she refused medical treatment.” The woman told police the attack occurred at […]

March 25, 2009; 7:00 AM • by Oregon Hill

I hope to have an update on this story soon.

From the Times Dispatch:

A woman used pepper spray late last night to fend off an attacker in Richmond’s Oregon Hill area.

Richmond police Capt. Dave Martin said the 18-year-old victim “was a little scraped up but she refused medical treatment.”

The woman told police the attack occurred at 11:50 p.m. in the 300 block of South Cherry Street, just south of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park campus, when an older male approached her and tried to forcibly take her backpack.

This comes right after a neighborhood association meeting last night where residents were told by police that the biggest crime in the area was theft from vehicles and crime was down in Oregon Hill 75%.

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