Meekiah Wadley, 28, was killed inside her Richmond home by a man who relatives say was attempting to spend the night there without her permission.
RICHMOND — After 23 years, the man who murdered a Richmond woman inside her home has been identified as a man who died within two weeks of the killing, police announced Thursday.
Now, police say they know who did it: a 35-year-old homeless man and Contra Costa Community College student named Jerry Lee Henderson, a Shreveport, La., native who died in his home of a suspected drug overdose just 11 days later. Henderson was identified through DNA evidence found under Wadley’s fingernails, police say.
Meekiah Wadley’s sister, Quila Wadley, told this newspaper she never suspected Henderson, an acquaintance of Meekiah who she met through a friend. She said police focused on the man Meekiah went to the movies with that night.In an interview with this newspaper, Quila Wadley shared her theory behind her sister’s murder: that Henderson was living on friends’ couches and that another person had asked him to leave.
In 1999, this newspaper reported that Meekiah Wadley moved into the home where she was killed about three years prior, with her daughter, Chantel Jones. In 1997, Jones’ father was gunned down in an ambush outside Richmond’s Roadrunner Club on Ohio Avenue, and family members said Wadley was still grieving years later.
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