Talk:Harvey family murder
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This was an important event to the Richmond area. I agree the page itself is important, but does it really need to be this graphic? Is it necessary to quote Gray at such length? To my mind, it's rather unseemly, but I didn't want to make any hasty deletions, as a rather inexperienced user. Does everyone else but me think this level of gory detail is normal? --Emily K.
- It is graphic, but I think the quote is useful in demonstrating Gray's state of mind at the time of the killings. Deco 04:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
This page is important because it was the first murder of the year in 2006. Kathryn Harvey owned a business well established in Carytown and her shop, Bryan's band, and the entire family were well known in Richmond, VA.
This was a family that was bound with tape, and forced into chairs in their own basement by two robbers. They had to watch one another have their throats slashed with box cutters from their own home.
This is not a vanity page. It is a page to recognize a terrible day in Richmond's history and the community, city, and state that was so affected by the family that was taken on that day.
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[edit] Switch to PROD
Switched from speedy to prod. Research crime to see if article appropriate,or merger, or delete. --FloNight 02:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] deleted harvey family article
I deleted the Harvey family article and made it a redirect here.--Alhutch 05:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleaned up some wording regarding "World of Mirth"
I just wanted to throw in my 2 cents: I think Carytown doesn't need a separate page. It's only a few blocks within the city of Richmond. There is no "Carytown, Virginia." Carytown is realy a shopping district more than a neighborhood. When we lived in that area, we usually said we lived "in the Museum District," "west of the Boulevard," or maybe "near Carytown," but not "in Carytown," because that sounds like we lived in a store. A section of the Richmond, Va., article would be more appropriate for Carytown than giving it a whole separate page.--Emily K.
I removed the adjectives "whimsical and quirky" from this article and removed linking for Carytown. I also broke up Carytown from Richmond Virginia.
The adjectives, while I agree they are accurate descriptions of the store, they are probably POV and may not be universally held opinions.
Also, I'm not sure if there needs to be a separate article for Carytown, since the district is already addressed in the Richmond, VA article.
Also, by wording it as Carytown, Virginia, it implied that Carytown is a separate town in instead of just being a district of Richmond.
I also cleaned up wording for Woodland Heights. You can check the history to see the changes in detail. --Dino213aa 05:22, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] four murders but five charges?
I know nothing about this other than what is in this article, but it appears that four people were murdered. However, the murderer was found guilty of five counts of murder. I'm not au fait with the American legal system, but this seems odd - is this a mistake, did he murder someone else or is there some other reason for the extra count? It should either be explained or corrected. Thryduulf 09:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
