Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 18, 1995 TAG: 9503200019
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The youth appeared in the kitchen at Lewis and Edna Chittum's home about 10 p.m. It is unclear exactly how he got in the house.
``He was pointing the gun right at me and said, `Just give me your money,''' said Lewis Chittum, 70, who first saw the youth.
Edna Chittum, 65, his wife, was sleeping in the bedroom when the teen-ager came in demanding jewelry. ``He pointed a gun at me and told me to stay where I was,'' she said.
No one was injured during the incident.
Before leaving the Chittums' home in the 600 block of Highland Avenue, the youth took costume jewelry and cash. He told the Chittums to stay in the bedroom and count to 10, then took their portable phone and dismantled their wall phone.
Police later found a youth who matched the Chittums' description walking in the 600 block of Albemarle Avenue Southeast and arrested him. The juvenile is from the Southeast Roanoke area. He was charged with robbery and placed in Coyner Springs Juvenile Detention Center without bond, police said.
In another incident, two men asked for a room at a Northwest Roanoke motel early Friday and then robbed the clerk, police said. The men forced the clerk at the Starlite Motor Court at 4448 Melrose Ave. to open the cash drawer.
One of the men grabbed the money and they fled on foot. No one was injured.
by CNB