DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 1997          TAG: 9711120483

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 

DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                    LENGTH:   22 lines

MAN IS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN SHOOTING DEATH OF ROOMMATE

Detectives charged a man with murder on Tuesday, hours after he turned himself in to police, saying he had shot his roommate.

Police said 24-year-old Shannon A. Cutler told them he killed 42-year-old William W. Tillery III in the garage apartment they shared in the 200 block of Clearfield Ave. Tillery was found slain in his bed, police said.

Police were sent to the garage apartment, near Virginia Beach Boulevard, around 7:30 a.m. They had been called by Cutler's father, who told them his son had shot someone, police spokesman Mike Carey said.

The father took his son to the Third Precinct, where he was taken into custody, Carey said. After an interview at Police Headquarters, Cutler was charged with murder.

He is being held without bail in the city jail. KEYWORDS: MURDER ARREST SHOOTING

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