
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 22, 1994                   TAG: 9410240059
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: VIRGINIA   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

SLAIN FAMILY BURIED IN RICHMOND

As mourners filed past the six caskets of family members gunned down in one of the city's largest mass murders, a relative wailed and collapsed upon reaching the smallest container.

It held the youngest of the victims, a seven-month fetus, killed in her 14-year-old mother's womb during the Oct. 14 shootings.

She was buried Friday with her grandmother, Daphne R. Jones, 29; Jones' boyfriend, James N. Randolph Jr., 35; Jones and Randolph's 9-year-old daughter, Nicole; and Jones' sons, 4-year-old David and 3-year-old Robert. Tamika Jones lost her baby but survived, as did her 18-month-old sister, Kenya.

No arrests have been made.

The deaths have shocked the Richmond community, which has seen 136 homicides so far this year.

``I hope this will wake people up - it's beyond tragic,'' said Dwight Walker, a state Capitol employee assisting funeral organizers. ``It's got to stop, it's got to stop, it's got to stop.''

by CNB