
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991                   TAG: 9102210419
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
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ROANOKER ROBBED, HIT IN FACE WITH BAT

A Roanoke man was hit in the face with a baseball bat and then robbed by a man who stopped to help him when he ran out of gas.

Cleveland Blair Thompson, 20, of Plantation Road, told police that he ran out of gas about 11 a.m. Tuesday at the rear of The Plaza of Roanoke-Salem.

A man stopped and offered to help, Thompson told police. After going to get money for gas, the two men returned to Thompson's car.

Thompson told police that as he was putting gas in his car, the man hit him with a baseball bat. The man then took $15 from Thompson and fled.

Thompson, who was treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital for an eye injury, told police the man said he had recently been released from prison.

by CNB