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$10,000 offered for capture of fugitive

By Josh Rizzo
Rocket Editor-in-Chief

Issue date: 7/4/09 Section: News

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Media Credit: Greenville Police Department

Police announced Saturday morning there is a $10,000 reward for the capture of a former Slippery Rock University basketball star.

James Earl Richardson, 32, is charged with two counts of murder after allegedly killing two people in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday morning. The two dead were 21-year-old Landon Blackley, a student at East Carolina University, and Andrew Kirby, a manager at Michalengo's a pizzeria in Greenville.

Richardson was thrown out of the Other Place Club before returning later that evening with a weapon. No information has been released on what kind of gun was used in the shooting.

The East Carolinian, ECU's student newspaper, reported Wednesday that numerous students were outside the Other Place Club the night of the shooting. One student, according to the paper, said that the car actually stopped to fire the shots before speeding off.

Richardson is still at large and is considered armed and dangerous.

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