78-year-old woman killed on Cedar Street

Police are reporting Richmond’s first homicide of 2014

January 6, 2014; 11:59 AM • by Ross Catrow

Update #1 — January 6, 2014; 11:53 AM

Police have arrested the victim’s son, Ronnie S. Cook and charged him with murder, robbery, and grand larceny.

Note: originally we reported the victim was 70 years old.

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Original — January 06, 2014

At 4:41 PM on January 5th, police were called to the 1900 block of Cedar Street where they found 78-year-old Emma Cook stabbed to death.

At approximately 4:41 p.m. this afternoon, a family member found a female unresponsive in an apartment in the 1900 block of Cedar Street and called police.

WRIC has a few more details:

“This is unbelievable,” said Alicia Rasin, who was a friend of Cook’s for more than 30 years. Rasin says Cook was retired from working in public schools. “She was a custodian for many, many, many years,” Rasin said. “She would feed anyone; she would do anything for anyone.”

2013 saw 37 homicides in Richmond, nine in the East End. 2013’s first homicide took place on January 21st.