Veteran court reporter laid to rest
Four days after his brutal murder, today members of the media and the legal community joined family and friends to pay their last respects to veteran court reporter, Richard Hulse.
Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting
This afternoon forty-seven year old Richard Rodney Hulse was laid to rest following services at the Holy Redeemer Cathedral. The mass was attended by his family, Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, Magistrate Court judges and employees, journalists, and friends.
Ann Marie Williams, Chair, Bz. Independent Media Assn.
“But one thing is for sure, he never lacked the determination to get it right. He took his job seriously … and when you see him, you could know – he was well dressed.”
“When things get rough and you would hassle him for some information, he would remind you, “That’s why I work fi mi self.” Richard was a fixture at all times at many of the media houses, primarily print and television, and he even worked for the radio at times selling his stories. He was also a fixture at both the Magistrate’s and Supreme courts. He made no money from this business, I could say, but what he did, he did to the best of his abilities, out of a share love. Up to the time of his death, sometime between Wednesday night and early Thursday morning of last week, he sold his stories to Channel Five television.”
“As much as he loved laughing out loud, he would sit back, throw his feet up, and have a bellyful of laughs.”
While the Mass of Thanksgiving for the life of Richard Rodney Hulse came to an end, the police still have no leads regarding who killed him. Hulse was stabbed more than forty times inside his home, sometime between late Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. The body was discovered the following day around eleven.
Richard Rodney Hulse is survived by his mom Amy Evadne Hulse; sisters Lorraine Smith, Cynthia, Betty, and Carolyn Hulse; brothers Henry Hulse, Jr., and Dean Hulse. If you have any information that assist investigators in solving his murder, please call police or Crime Stoppers at 0-800-922-8477.
