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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, December 18, 1993                   TAG: 9312180190
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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2 WOMEN WOUNDED IN SEPARATE SHOOTINGS

Two Roanoke women were shot and wounded Thursday night in unrelated incidents. Police gave the following accounts:

At 11:20 p.m., police were called to a home on the 1200 block of Moorman Road Northwest. Officers found a woman on the porch bleeding from gunshot wounds to the backs of both legs.

Clare Marie Cotton, 28, of Salem Avenue said she had been shot in a nearby alley. She said she did not know who did it, or why.

She was treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Shortly before 6 p.m., a 43-year-old woman was shot in the hand, apparently by accident, as her daughter grabbed a handgun from her during an altercation.

Cheryl Mack of the 3800 block of Panorama Avenue Northwest was treated at Lewis-Gale Hospital.

Police determined that two teen-age girls - one armed with a baseball bat - had come to Mack's home and accused her teen-age daughter of spray-painting a car.

When Mack's daughter was attacked by the girls, Mack pulled out a .22-caliber handgun, police said. Mack's daughter took the gun from her, and it apparently discharged as they struggled, police said.

No charges have been filed in either case.



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