Mobile Vaccination Event + Search For Shooter + MacArthur Update

Happy Thursday, Norfolk! Here's everything you need to know to start today off on an informed note. Here's everything you need to know in town today.

First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 77 Low: 61.

Here are the top stories today in Norfolk:

1. The Norfolk Department of Public Health is offering free COVID-19 vaccines at a Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month celebration this Saturday, Oct. 2. Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be available at Oceanview Park, 100 W. Oceanview Ave., from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., with no appointments needed. Acting district health director Dr. Parham Jaberi says the health department is "pleased to have the Norfolk mobile unit at this significant event to help our Latino communities and the Virginia Department of Health achieve vaccination efforts." (wtkr.com)
2. Local authorities are searching for 31-year-old Lavon T. Williams in connecting with the fatal shooting of a woman in south Norfolk. Police received a call on Wednesday afternoon about a shooting in the 700 block of Rockingham Street, where 25-year-old Rikeria D. Bibbins had sustained life-threatening injuries. Bibbins was pronounced dead at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, and Williams now has active warrants for second-degree murder and use of a firearm. (WAVY)
3. Norfolk city leaders have decided to pause plans to move utilities and city offices into the old Nordstrom space inside MacArthur Center. (13newsnow.com WVEC)
4. Norfolk City Council voted to move 100 people struggling with homelessness out of the Greyhound Bus Station along Brambleton Avenue and into the Budget Lodge Motel on Tidewater Drive. (13newsnow.com WVEC)
5. Local residents who are fed up with the speeding problem in the Crossroads area of Norfolk are working with the city to find a solution. (wtkr.com)

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Today in Norfolk:

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• Volunteers on Tap - United Way of South Hampton Roads (5:30 PM)
• Double Feature - 2 Exhibitions, 1 Opening Night! (5:30 PM)

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— Nicole Fallon-Peek

About me: Nicole Fallon-Peek is a journalist and copywriter with a degree in Media, Culture and Communication from New York University. She has served as a freelance reporter, managing editor, copy editor, and editorial director for a variety of B2B news outlets. She currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.