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Richmond police have arrested one suspect and are seeking another in a shooting last night on Montrose Avenue in North Richmond that left three people with non-life-threatening injuries.

Officers spotted and arrested Xavia Rayquinn Mayo, 20, of the 3000 block of Montrose Avenue, in the 2900 block of Chamberlayne Avenue just after 8:30 p.m.

Investigators are looking for Charles Lee Mayo, 22, also of the 3000 block of Montrose Avenue. In last night’s incident, which occurred about 10 p.m., two adult males and one adult female were shot and injured in the 2900 block of Montrose Avenue.

Anyone with information about Charles Mayo’s whereabouts is asked to call the Richmond Police Tipsline at (804) 514-TIPS or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000.

Two men and a woman were being treated for non-life-threatening wounds after shootings in North Side last night, Richmond police said. Police responded to a call in the 2900 block of Montrose Avenue at 10:09 p.m., said Richmond police Capt. Michael Snawder. Two victims were being treated at VCU Medical Center and one at St. Mary’s Hospital. The shootings are under investigation.

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Knowing a good opportunity when she sees one, Madison Hamilton happily set aside her dream and tried something new yesterday.

With her mother Jessi in tow on opening day of the 97th annual Chesterfield County Fair, 4-year-old Madison climbed atop Clyde and took her first camel ride.

“That was fun,” she said moments after fill-in camel walker and Eudora Farms Animal Show manager Randy Keene helped her down.

“She’s braver than I am,” her mother said.

Smiling wide and chatting up a storm, Madison said the ride was really cool, but she wasn’t giving up her true love: “I want a horse,” she said.

Full-fledged horses were about the only thing in short supply as the fair opened yesterday. It will run through Sept. 4 at the fairgrounds on Courthouse Road.

The fair features fun and excitement old and new. There’s the usual midway full of rides and tents packed with farm animals. Spicing it up this year are the Eudora Farms traveling collection of exotic animals and the Star Family Circus and Thrill Show.

The circus drew a standing-room-only crowd for its first show, with the Lovely Miss Streya handing out balloons to children and Oscar “King of the Sky” Garcia cheating death on the Space Wheel, among other acts.

“It just scares me looking at it,” Stella Mayton said as she watched Garcia walk the outer edge of the wheel as it spun far above the ground. Her granddaughter, Kaydie VanLandingham, kept watch as Garcia played jump rope with a bullwhip inside the wheel.

“But I can’t help but watch,” Mayton said.

John and Patsy Johnson of Chesterfield were the first people in the gates when the fair opened at 4 p.m. They didn’t have a particular sight in mind but they weren’t about to miss a minute of action.

“We’ve been coming for years,” said John Johnson. “We used to come for the rides, but we kind of got out of the riding stage once we passed 60. Now we’re just looking around.”

For the sheer fun of just looking, the exotic animal farm seemed to be the destination of choice.

Its collection of 55 creatures included a baby zebra, a yak named Zack and furry critters of many sizes.

The most playful of the group was Harley, an African Serval cat.

“It’s just like a big ol’ housecat,” said Keene’s son, Tommy, a former bullrider. “If you’re not careful in there, he’ll take a swipe. He just likes to play.”

Contact Zachary Reid at (804) 775-8179 or zreid@timesdispatch.com.

Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday night that he will provide details of a plan to privatize the state’s liquor stores by Sept. 8.

That is when a subcommittee of his government reform committee meets, he told reporters Tuesday night after his fourth town-hall meeting on government reform.

McDonnell expressed confidence that once legislators learn that revenues from Alcoholic Beverage Control sales will not decline and enforcement of ABC laws will not be diminished, they will approve the proposal when he calls them into special session shortly after that.

The governor wants to privatize the state’s 76-year-old liquor monopoly and auction off perhaps as many as 1,000 liquor licenses in hopes of raising $500 million for Transportation Improvements”>transportation improvements.

In an hour-and-45-minute-long meeting, McDonald fielded questions from an audience of about 300 people at the University of Mary Washington.

He discussed Sunday hunting (not allowed at present), globalization, offshore oil drilling, immigration and the mounting federal debt.

But many of the questions returned to the subject of ABC privatization.

While legislators in the audience appeared skeptical about privatizing liquor sales, other members of the audience appeared supportive.

“The fact that Virginia is in the whiskey business is really absurd,” one member of the audience said.

A man who said he represented Giant stores, a sister chain to the Martin’s grocery stores in the Richmond area, said, “We have a hundred stores interested in providing that shelf space [to sell liquor].”

The uphill battle McDonnell is waging to privatize the 334 ABC stores was evidenced by the comments of two legislators — a Republican and a Democrat — before the meeting.

Del. Robert D. Orrock Sr., R-Caroline, and Albert C. Pollard Jr., D-Lancaster, who represent rural districts, used dairy analogies to emphasize their reservations.

“If you have a cow that’s producing, you don’t sell it,” Orrock said.

“If you want milk, you don’t kill the cow,” added Pollard, who said he thought the governor was proposing to auction off the ABC stores for too little money.

Speaking of the reform commission, McDonnell said: “This is an excellent time for the government to look inward and reinvent itself.”

Tuesday night’s town hall was the fourth of eight that McDonnell has scheduled. He picks up the pace this week with sessions in Herndon Wednesday night and Harrisonburg Thursday night.

Contact Tyler Whitley at (804) 649-6780 or twhitley@timesdispatch.com.