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Judge Accepts Jury Recommendation on Sentence for Shooting of Richmond Man

20-year-old Bobby Aaron Richardson was sentenced June 15 to 15 years in prison for shooting a retired teacher who had stopped paying him blackmail to keep their illicit relationship quiet. The shooting victim, is a retired music teacher at Richmond's Armstrong High School, and he testified at Richardson's trial in May that he and Richardson had had a brief, intimate relationship that he said he ended after he discovered Richardson was a minor. He also testified that Richardson threatened to tell people about the relationship and blackmailed him. He said he paid Richardson $3,000 to $5,000 over a couple of years but at some point stopped paying, authorities said.

On the night of Oct. 11, 2008, Richardson approached the victim as he was in a car in the 2400 block of Cedar Street in Church Hill and asked him for money, authorities said. The victim said he had no more money for Richardson, and as he was getting out of the car, Richardson shot him twice in the body, attorneys said. The victim was in the hospital for from four to six weeks, said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Michael E. Hollomon.

Judge Bradley Cavedo imposed the 15-year sentence recommended by the jury, plus an additional three-year suspended sentence."The jury," Cavedo said, "is the conscience in the community."

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