September 17,
2018
The Richmond Police Department has identified the victim and offender in the domestic-related homicide and suicide that began with a shooting on Northside Avenue last week.
At
approximately 2:25 a.m. on Thursday, September 13, officers were called to the 700
block of Northside Avenue for the report of a person down. Officers arrived and
found Tanya P. Washington, 47, of the 700 block of Northside Avenue,
down and unresponsive in the roadway near the intersection of Meadowbridge
Road. She had suffered a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Later
that same day at approximately 12:55 p.m., detectives working the investigation
went to a home in the 3100 block of Letcher Avenue and found Leon E. Willis,
57, of that same address, down and unresponsive from an apparent
self-inflicted gunshot wound. Detectives believe Washington and Willis were in
a relationship.
