Richmond police were standing in the middle of Nine Mile Road before dawn this morning in an effort to catch the killer of a nurse shot in the area exactly one week ago.
With the entrance to Oakwood Cemetery on one side and Creighton Court on the other, officers stopped cars, buses, delivery trucks and taxi cabs telling the occupants about the unsolved slaying and passing out flyers with a photo of the victim and her automobile.
Bonnie C. Marrow, 56, of the 8200 block of Cookes Farm Court in Henrico County, was found shot in her black Acura in the 1100 block on N. 25th Street around 7:20 a.m. on Dec. 22. She had managed to drive her car there and park it before losing consciousness. She died later at the VCU Medical Center.
Police believe she was shot in the vicinity of the cemetery where she was in the habit of stopping on her way to work to visit the grave of her son, Robert Lee Cox Jr., 22. Cox was found on June 8, 2010, with multiple gunshot wounds and slumped over the steering wheel of his car off Mechanicsville Turnpike in Henrico County.
Richmond Police spokesman Gene Lepley said Marrow was in the habit of stopping at her son's grave while on her way to work. He also said police believe that was the area where the shooting occurred.
He said police are investigating on two tracks: one, that she knew her killer and the other that she did not. It is that second scenario, Lepley said, that had police out this morning asking the public for help.
He said police believe the shooting occurred between 6:30 and 6:45 a.m. They were passing out flyers from 6:15 to 7 a.m. to overlap by that window by 15 minutes. It is hoped that someone in the routine of driving that stretch of road at that hour and that day of the week may have seen something, said Lepley.
By 7 a.m. more than a dozen officers and investigators had passed out 152 flyers, he said.
Anyone with any information about the crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 780-1000 or contact the case detective Michael Gouldman at 804-512-2950. The information will be kept confidential.
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