Residents all around Portsmouth gathered at the city council meeting to express their discontent with the amount of violence in Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Nine public speakers at Portsmouth’s City Council meeting on Tuesday evening pleaded for solutions to the violence that has plagued Olde Towne and other areas in Portsmouth recently – and Police Chief Stephen Jenkins said he will ...

Portsmouth businesses and residents in the Olde Towne area want an end to the violence in that part of the city that foster concerns of that area being unsafe. It’s scenes like the shooting that took place early Sunday morning on High Street that has caused just the latest concern.