‘Beyond grateful to be alive’: Victims of alleged racist attack in Spotsylvania speak out
Amylah Majors and Jamaria Gaskins were on Partlow Road in Spotsylvania County around 6:30 p.m. July 20 when they drove over some debris and heard a thumping sound.
They pulled over on the side of the road, turned on their hazard lights and prepared to inspect their vehicle for damage.
But before they could get out of the car, a man exited a nearby home. When he gave them the “thumbs up” sign, they thought he was going to help them. Instead, they say, he and two others began to berate them with racial slurs and threats.
“They called us [N-words], told us we didn’t belong there, and one of them even exposed himself while screaming hate and slurs at us,” Majors stated on a crowdfunding page.
Two Spotsylvania County residents are facing misdemeanor charges after the incident in the 4300 block of Partlow Road that has drawn the attention of the county’s branch of the NAACP and other social justice activists.
Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office Maj. Delbert Myrick said more charges could be filed against Mark Goodman and Elizabeth Wolfrey, who were recorded taunting the Black couple from Richmond. Majors and Gaskins were in the area visiting Gaskins’ mother, a resident of neighboring Caroline County.
Wolfrey, 32, is charged with one count of pointing and brandishing a firearm, while Goodman, 59, is facing a charge of indecent exposure after he was recorded exposing his backside to the couple. A third person recorded during the incident was not charged with a crime “at this time,” Myrick said.
Two Spotsylvania residents are facing one misdemeanor charge each after the July 20 incident in the Partlow area.
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