He wanted to be a music producer one day but sadly, that day will now never come. Glover said that Jackson loved music and had a smile that could light up a whole room. With other mourners standing behind her, Glover remembered them both as “loving,” hard-working people with “hearts of gold.” “Something that was so special and supposed to be a happy moment for all of us ended as a tragedy,” Glover, who is also Smith’s sister-in-law, said Wednesday evening. Jackson and his stepfather, 36-year-old Lorenzo Smith, were both killed in a mass shooting outside the city’s Altria Theater not long after Jackson walked the stage at the theater during Huguenot High School’s graduation. Middle School in Richmond, thanking the city’s police department, first responders and people who have shared prayers and donations. The family of the two victims killed in Tuesday’s mass shooting in Richmond addressed the media Wednesday, remembering their loved ones as two “loving” people with “hearts of gold.”ĭatrell Glover, the aunt of 18-year-old Shawn Jackson, spoke in the parking lot of Martin Luther King Jr. Singlemann said people should take action before the estimated 3,330 crape myrtle trees in the city get weaker. Richmond Tree Stewards, a volunteer group, said crape myrtle trees make up about 7% of the city’s tree canopy. The bark scale originated in Asia and made its way to Texas before spreading rapidly in Virginia. They typically have a second hatch period later in the summer, Singlemann said.
In Richmond, the insects’ hatch period happens in April and May. And the plant would just get weaker and weaker, and eventually, something else would come in and finish it off,” Peggy Singlemann, the creator of RVA Gardners, said. “What’s distressing is the flowers would get smaller, and the flower clusters will get smaller.
The bark scales can lead to a tree’s stunted growth, branch dieback, and death if left untreated. The pests look like white or grayish cotton specks, and they feed on the crape myrtle trees’ sap which eventually weakens them. The tree-damaging bugs have resurfaced and are threatening the city’s greenery. Environmentalists are warning about Richmond’s crape myrtle trees being attacked by a non-native invasive species called bark scale.
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