CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville detectives alongside University of Virginia Police are investigating an incident involving a firearm that occurred on October 30, 2024, at a former University of Virginia fraternity house located at 513 Rugby Road.
Charlottesville detectives alongside University of Virginia Police are investigating an incident involving a firearm that occurred on October 30, 2024, at what was a University of Virginia fraternity house located at 513 Rugby Road. The fraternity that previously occupied this house is not currently active; thus, the occupants are NOT associated with the fraternity. The victim advised that another male, who also lives at the residence brandished a firearm at him. The victim also described several past incidents with the suspect, which include alleged threatening messages and assault. Both the victim and suspect in this case are students at the University of Virginia.
On October 31, 2024, University of Virginia Police assisted the victim in obtaining several charges against the suspect. Robert Cabell Romer, a 20-year-old Charlottesville resident, has been charged with the following:
- 18.2-57: Assault and batter because of such person’s race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color or ethnic or national origin with such battery having resulted in bodily injury.
- 18.2-121: Enter the property of another for the purpose of damaging it or the contents thereof, or for the purpose of interfering with the rights of the owner, user, or occupant thereof to use such property free from interference.
- 18.2-60: Knowingly communicate in a writing a threat to kill or do bodily injury to another which placed such person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury.
- 18.2-282: Point, hold, or brandish a firearm in such a manner so as to reasonably induce fear in the mind of another, or to hold a firearm in such a manner as to reasonably induce fear in the mind of another of being shot or injured.
