(KRON) — Contra Costa County prosecutors charged a 61-year-old man with murdering his parents on New Year’s Eve in Concord, investigators said.
The double homicide victims’ son, Kirk Laroy Richardson, is being behind bars in lieu of $4 million bail, police said. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, court records show.
The Concord Police Department said officers responded to a 911 call reporting a “family disturbance” at a home on Walnut Avenue around 7 a.m. on Dec. 31, 2025.
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When officers arrived, they found two victims dead from gunshot wounds, police said. Officers detained the son at the residence and arrested him.
Richardson is scheduled to make his first court appearance on January 5 for an arraignment.
His criminal history includes two restraining orders filed against him in 2013 by Richardson’s neighbor in Martinez and the neighbor’s boyfriend. Richardson was described as a drug user who was “extremely violent and is in the mental health system,” the neighbor’s boyfriend wrote in a petition requesting a restraining order.
The boyfriend wrote that after he backed-out of going fishing with Richardson, “he threatened to decapitate me and put my guts in a trash bag.” According to the petition, Richardson owned a large sword and the couple lived in fear of him.
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