WDBJ 7 news at 6 for 07/02/03

[1-News-Head]

[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

Shots fired on an interstate highway. The first-hand account from a woman who carries the bullet fragments to documen
t her ordeal.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]
A man takes a 14-year girl to a beauty shop to have her hair died black. That's the first clue something was wrong. We've got the rest of the story.
(------------)

[Sports-Head]

[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=]
Tonight on News 7 sports - a former teen sensation on the links is ready to tee it up at the US Open. Steve Mason checks the pulse of Tech's coaches the day after changes conference addresses.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
And John Swofford says in the future his presidents need to spend more time at the table and less time on the phone.
(------------)

[WX-Head]
[ANCHOR=Robin]
[SS=None]

The heaviest of the rain is passing by, the flood watches and warnings are lowered and now we are looking for a hot fourth of July. The story coming up.
(-------------)
[ANCHOR=Keith 4-Shot]

News 7 is next.
[Video-Open]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=Video Open]

(/////SOT/////)
[SOT 13:37:41]
[IN Q=It's like the]
((IT'S LIKE THE LORD JUST TOUCHED ME ON MY SHOULDER. I WENT INTO THE BREAK ROOM. BY THIS TIME TARA HAD WALKED BACK IN, SHE HAD BEEN OUT WITH HER MOTHER, AND I TOLD HER TARA, I'VE GOT A REALLY FUNNY FEELING SOMETHING'S GOING ON HERE.))
[RUNS=11]
[OUT Q=something's going on here.]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]

Some women's intuition leads police to a 14-year-old runaway.
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

Now the 39-year-old man she was traveling with is behind bars.
(------------)
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

Good evening, I'm Keith Humphry.
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]

And I'm Shannon Young.
[Missing-Girl]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=ssm]
[TAPE#=03-14 TC1:13:02]
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]

Lynchburg police say the quick thinking of some hair salon employees helped them nab a man suspected of abusing a teenage runaway.
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

Steve Smallshaw has the story.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=When a 39]
[SUPER=03-Lynchburg; :00]
[SUPER=01-Wanda Cooper/Hair Stylist]
[SUPER=01-Dottie Shea/Shear Perfection Owner]
[SUPER=01-Andrea Rucker/Nail Stylist]
[SUPER=@ssm1; ]
[RUNS=:00]
[OUT Q=News7, Lynchburg.]
(( When a 39-year-old man and a teenage girl walked into the Shear Perfection salon Monday, something didn't seem quite right.
The man told stylists the girl wanted her nails done and her hair died black.. and he seemed to be in complete control of their relationship.
[SOT 13:36:53]
((WANDA COOPER/HAIR STYLIST: SHE KEPT HER HEAD DOWN. SHE WOULD LOOK UP IN THE MIRROR AND SEE IF HE WAS WATCHING OR LISTENING AND I COULD KINDA GET A GLARE FROM HIM FROM THE MIRROR WHERE HE WAS GIVING US DIRTY LOOKS, REALLY LISTENING IN.))

[RUNS= 13]
[OUT Q=listening in.]

The man's demeanor and the girl's ever-changing story left the employees suspicious.. so after some debate, they called the police.
The man turned out to be 39-year-old Charles Benjamin Twyford of Ohio.. the girl was a 14-year-old runaway, Jennifer Lynn Hudgins, who disappeared near Tampa last month.
Police think the two met on the Internet and were on the run until they entered Dottie Shea's salon.
[SOT 13:32:29]
((DOTTIE SHEA/SHEAR PERFECTION OWNER: IT'S A MOTHERLY INSTINCT. WE'VE ALL BEEN RAISED WITH MILK CARTONS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, IT WAS JUST A REALLY WONDERFUL THING.))
[RUNS= 09]
[OUT Q=wonderful thing.]
[SOT 13:44:24]
((ANDREA RUCKER/NAIL STYLIST: AND I THANK GOD THAT HE USED THE PEOPLE IN THIS SALON TO POINT SOMETHING SO SERIOUS AND HORRIFIC OUT.))
[RUNS= 06]
[OUT Q=horrific out.]
[Standup ] ((Police have charged Twyford with carnal knowledge of a minor.. he's in the Lynchburg jail and Jennifer's parents are on their way here for a reunion with their daughter. As for the hair salon, police say employees did the right thing by getting involved.))
[RUNS= 13]
[OUT Q=by getting involved.]
[SOT 13:39:08]
((COOPER: I FEEL LIKE SHE'S MY OWN CHILD NOW, BUT I CAN'T BE THERE TO PROTECT HER ANY MORE. SO JENNIFER, IF YOU'RE WATCHING YOU DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU AND THAT'S WHY WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO. I FEEL LIKE I WAS YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL ON THAT DAY.))
[RUNS= 15]
[OUT Q=on that day.]

Steve Smallshaw, News7, Lynchburg. ))

[Shell]

[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=myr]
[TAPE#=03-25 TC50:18]
[GRAPHIC=Robert Shell]

He'll be monitored around the clock, but other than that, a Radford photographer charged in connection with the death of one of his models will soon be a free man.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Radford;]
Robert Shell was to be released on 50-thousand dollars bond and placed on house arrest by order of a Circuit judge. [INSERT PHOTOS] The 56-year-old photographer was jailed on sex charges associated with the death of 19-year-old Marion Franklin of North Carolina. [BACK TO VIDEO] Shell is accused of drugging Franklin, who was found dead in his studio June 3rd. His attorney says it won't be easy getting the sodomy charge against Shell dropped, even though the Supreme Court overturned a sodomy ban.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 1504]
[IN Q=the forcible sodomy]
((MARC SMALL/SHELL'S ATTORNEY: THE FORCIBLE SODOMY EFFECTIVELY EQUATES TO RAPE AND SO WE HAVE TO OVERCOME THE FORCIBLE PART OF THAT FIRST.))
[SUPER=01-Marc Small/Shell's Attorney;]
[RUNS=08]
[OUT Q=of that first]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
Prosecutors say they will wiat for an autopsy report before deciding whether to charge Shell with homicide.
(------------)

[Manns]

[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=6 PM]
[WRITER=jus]
[TAPE#=03-19 TC1:01:22]
[GRAPHIC=Billy Manns]

A Martinsville man was acquitted in a murder for hire scheme but now he's behind bars again.
18 year old Billy Ray Manns allegedly broke into a man's apartment, demanded money and then beat him.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]

Manns was found a short time later in another apartment at Sherwood Manor in Bassett.
When he refused to come out, Henry County Sheriff's deputies broke down the door and arrested him.
[SUPER=03-Martinsville/File Tape]

Mann had been accused of shooting Lisa Nicole Muhammad in September of 2000.
His first trial ended in a hung jury.
Another jury found Manns not guilty at the retrial in April.
(------------)

[Interstate-Shooting]

[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=mjo]
[TAPE#=03-17 TC1:17:37]
[GRAPHIC=None]

A bullet shattered a daytrip with her boyfriend, but a 19-year-old from Scruggs says she's just glad it didn't take her life.
Kimberly Bede (Bee-dee) was shot on a Tennessee interstate last week.
Now she's back home in Franklin County.
She talked to Marya Jones about her ordeal.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=You don't ever]
[SUPER=03-Franklin Co.; :00]
[SUPER=01-Kimberly Bede/Shooting Victim; :12 QUICK]
[SUPER=03-Cocke Co., TN/Last Wednesday; :20]
[SUPER=03-Cocke Co., TN/Friday; :35]
[RUNS=1:12]
[OUT Q=thankful that it wasn't.]
(((///// SOT /////)
[SOT 17:54:57]
((YOU DON'T EVER THINK IT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.)) [RUNS:02]
Kim Bede can't stop replaying her ordeal on a Tennessee interstate ... even as she recovers safe at home.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 17:45:03]
(( I PULLED MY HAND BACK UP AND IT WAS JUST COVERED IN BLOOD AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAD HAPPENED. )) [RUNS:05]
Bede was riding down Interstate 40 with her boyfriend last Wednesday when a bullet hit her in the rear end.
A man driving a truck behind them was shot in the head and killed.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 17:45:42]
(( WE HAD JUST PASSED HIM, SO IT COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF US THAT WAS DEAD. AND I FEEL VERY LUCKY. )) [RUNS:07]
Two teenage stepbrothers are charged with the shootings.
13-year-old Joshua Buckner and 15-year-old William are undergoing mental evaluations.
But under Tennessee law, the worst they can face is juvenile detention until age 19.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 17:48:25]
((IT'S JUST A LITTLE SLAP ON THE WRIST AND I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO TEACH THEM ANYTHING. )) [RUNS:05]
Bede is spending time at home with her brother and taking it easy for now.
She still has nightmares about her ordeal and may need surgery to remove eight bullet fragments now in her pelvis.
But still, she feels lucky.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 17:45:59]
((IT HURTS AND IT'S AN INJURY AND EVERYTHING BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE AND I'M THANKFUL THAT IT WASN'T.)) [RUNS:06]))
(-------------)
[LIVE= Marya /FULL Newsroom]

Bede says she'll testify when the boys are tried on charges of reckless homicide and aggravated assault.
[DOUBLE BOXES=Keith & Marya /Newsroom;]

She says she's afraid to face them but wouldn't miss the chance to hear them explain why this happened.
Keith?

[Tease#1]
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]
[SS=NONE]

Roanoke schools prepare to go under the microscope, as the state reviews its safety reporting procedures.
That's next on News 7 at Six.
(---------------)
[VO-NAT]
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

Plus Roanoke's surprise snow leopard cubs make their first public appearance.
(----------------)

[City-Schools]
[NEWSCAST=Six]
[WRITER=jda]
[TAPE#=03-22 TC55:50]
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

As the city of Roanoke wrestles with concerns about school safety, state officials will soon be weighing in.
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]

A team from the Virginia Department of Education is due in Roanoke next week to review the school system's procedures for reporting serious incidents. [***NEWS 7 @ 6 IN MONITOR***]
[TOSS ACROSS=Keith-Shannon & JoeD /BAM;]

Joe Dashiell is in the newsroom tonight with more on that, and the growing chorus of support for school resource officer Butch Lewis.
Keith and Shannon,
[LIVE= JoeD /FULL BAM]
[SUPER=@joe1;]
the team from the Department of Education is coming at the request of school superintendent Wayne Harris.
Education officials are not calling this visit an audit, but a review of the system for collecting and reporting incidents of discipline, crime and violence.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=What we're trying to do]
[SUPER=01-Charles Pyle/Department of Education Spokesman; :00]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke/Last Night; :45]
[SUPER=01-Butch Lewis/Roanoke City Police Officer; 1:02]
[RUNS=1:10]
[OUT Q=want my job back at Patrick Henry.]
((
[SOT 15:5:25]
[IN Q=What we're trying to do]
((WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS WORK WITH ROANOKE, TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THEIR PROCESS, HELP THEM IMPROVE IT, SO IT'S MUCH MORE ACCURATE, AND PRODUCES MUCH MORE RELIABLE AND MEANINGFUL DATA.))
[RUNS= :12]
[OUT Q=more reliable and meaningful data.]

Education Department Spokesman Charles Pyle says an interview with school superintendent Wayne Harris is first on the agenda when the team arrives in Roanoke on Monday.
Then, members will fan out to talk with central office staff, principals and assistant principals, law enforcement officials including school resource officers.
At the end of the process, Pyle says the team hopes to produce a set of useful recommendations.
[SOT]
[IN Q=we've tried]
((WE'VE TRIED TO IMPROVE THE PROCESS ON OUR END AND OUR GOAL HERE IS TO HELP ROANOKE IMPROVE THE PROCESS ON ITS END, SO THE END RESULT IS MORE ACCURATE AND RELIABLE DATA.))
[RUNS= :07]
[OUT Q=reliable data.]

Meanwhile, supporters of former school resource officer Butch Lewis continued to call for his reinstatement at Patrick Henry High School, appearing before the school board Tuesday night.
Transferred to patrol duty after he spoke with a reporter about school violence and discipline reports, Lewis asked for the school board's endorsement.
[SOT 47:30 LEWIS #3]
[IN Q=It's something that I want]
((IT'S SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO CONTINUE TO DO AND I DON'T HAVE NAY HARD FEELINGS TOWARDS ANYONE. I JUST WANT MY JOB BACK AT PATRICK HENRY.))
[RUNS= :09]
[OUT Q=job back at Patrick Henry.]))
(-------------)
[LIVE= JoeD /FULL BAM]

That decision rests with Police Chief Joe Gaskins,
[TOSS ACROSS=Keith-Shannon & JoeD /BAM;]

But Keith and Shannon, members of city council say they expect to discuss the issue when they get together next week.

[Giles-Training]

[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=myr]
[TAPE#=03-18 TC1:54:05]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Authorities in Giles County hope to keep their schools from becoming "another Columbine."
(//////SOT/////)
((NAT GUNSHOT AND SCREAMING))
[SUPER=03-Giles Co.;]
[RUNS=03]
[OUTCUE=NAT GUNSHOT AND SCREAMING]
(-------------)
[VO-NAT]
What you just saw was a TRAINING exercise for police to learn what to do in a school shooting. About 50-law enforcement officers, students and school administrators took part in the exercise, which officials say can sometimes get a little scary.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 4808]
[IN Q=you know]
((4808RANDY FERRELL/NEW RIVER POLICE ACADEMY; YOU KNOW THEY JOKE, THEY SMOKE AND JOKE, THEY HAVE A LITTLE FUN TIME , BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN, IF YOU NOTICE THOSE GUYS GOING DOWN THE HALL, SWEAT WAS POURING OFF THEM, THE ADRENALINE WAS PUMPING. WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THIS A REALISTIC AS POSSIBLE 20))
[SUPER=01-Randy Ferrell/New River Police Academy;]
[RUNS=12]
[OUT Q=realistic as possible]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
The New River Police Academy conducts the training each summer for about 15-agencies throughout the valley. Officials say they hope the lessons never have to be put to use, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
(------------)

[Malvo]

[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=03-20 TC49:31]
[GRAPHIC=Lee Malvo]

The murder trial of alleged sniper Lee Malvo will be moved out of northern Virginia.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=@file]

A Fairfax County judge ruled that Malvo can't get a fair trial in an area where so many people lived in fear during the sniper spree.
[SUPER=03-Chesapeake]

So the trial will be heard in a Chesapeake, even though officials there- -including the local judges don't want it there.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=This will]
((WILLIAM WARD/CHESAPEAKE MAYOR; THIS WILL DISRUPT TO A DEGREE THE NORMAL ACTIVITIES HERE AT CITY HALL, THERE ARE POTENTIAL SAFETY ISSUES, CERTAINLY THE COST.))
[SUPER=01-William Ward/Chesapeake Mayor; ]
[RUNS=:12]
[OUT Q=certainly the cost.]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]

Despite his objections, Mayor William Ward said the city will cooperate with the courts.
Malvo's trial could last as long as two months.
He could get the death penalty if convicted of shooting F-B-I analyst Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot in Falls Church.
(------------)

[Stocks]

[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=None]
[GRAPHIC=None]

A rush of good news allowed Wall Street to move higher. [TAKE DOW & NASDAQ PAGE]
[RUNS=:30]
[SUPER=x5000;]
[SUPER=440-x/101.89/9142.84/x/38.64/1678.77;]
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

The DOW rose 102 points.
NASDAQ gained 39.
(-------------)
[VO]
[SUPER=271-h/0.28/60.73/h/0.40/46.59/h/0.08/29.80/h/1.18/77.58/h/0.40/80.40;]
[SUPER=272-h/0.14/11.77/h/0.29/7.45/h/0.41/64.28/h/0.80/43.92/i/0.02/28.61;]
[SUPER=273-h/0.14/5.44/i/0.07/31.88/h/0.28/16.97/h/0.29/19.62/h/0.10/6.94;]
[SUPER=274-i/0.24/7.90/h/0.42/60.37/h/0.71/40.21/h/0.51/41.13/h/1.38/55.73;]
[SUPER=#555; Reset]

[Duarte]

[ANCHOR=Keith]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=khu]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=None]
It'll cost Josephina Bueno-Duarte nearly four years in federal prison- -all because of a set of rosary beads hanging from her rear-view mirror. That's what prompted Trooper Gary Meredith to stop the mini-van with Illinois plates. And that led to a search of the van, revealing 15 pounds of cocaine stashed inside. She'd told trooper Meredith she met a man in a Chicago car wash who asked her to deliver a package to North Carolina. She was pulled over in Wythe County a year ago. The judge sentenced her to three years, ten months.

[Snow-Leopard]

[ANCHOR=Shannon]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=eki]
[TAPE#=03-13 TC2:03:14]
[GRAPHIC=None]

Just one week old today, the surpise snow leopard cubs at Mill Mountain Zoo are healthy and growing fast.

(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
The female cub actually weighs 30 grams more than the male.
But zoo keepers say it didn't start out that way.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=So at birth the..]
((DAVE WOOD/MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO CURATOR: SO AT BIRTH THE MALE WAS A LITTLE BIT UH THE FEMALE WAS SMALLER BUT SHE HAS GAINED AND SURPASSED HIM ALREADY.))
[SUPER=01-Dave Wood/Mill Mountain Zoo Curator]
[RUNS=:06]
[OUT Q=and surpassed him already.]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]

Wood says the cubs are not only growing like weeds but getting feisty.
They are vocal and in the next couple of days are expected to open their small eyes.
The new residents at the zoo will go on display next month.
(-----------)

[Sports Tease]

[ANCHOR=mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=]
Coming up tonight on News 7 sports - Steve Mason checks in from Tech where now that the Hokies are in the ACC - they need to figure out to be competitive in all sports,
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
and during his time in Roanoke he was despised by Tech fans. Bill Brill with some thoughts from last night's ACC announcement when we come back.
(------------)

[S-ACC]

[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=11pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=SP-148]
[GRAPHIC=TECH/MIAMI/ACC]

The ACC's welcoming of Miami and Virginia Tech will go down as the crowning event of the confernce's golden anniversary season.
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Greensboro, NC; :00]
But it won't go down or go away without a number of questions. Bill Brill, has never been in the Hokie Huddle, but last the former Roanoke Times sports editor was in attendance. He is still as well connected as anyone to the goings-on in the ACC, and like most of us he cannot understand how the expansion process evolved.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=BITES]
[SUPER=01-Bill Brill/Former Roanoke Times Columnist; :00]
[SUPER=01-John Swofford/ACC Commissioner; :45]
[RUNS=1:02]
[OUT Q=...OWN LEAGUE FAIRLY."]
(------------)

[S-Coaches]

[ANCHOR=mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=sma]
[TAPE#=SP-151 :51]
[GRAPHIC=Tech/Miami/ACC]

The ACC's pursuit of Tech and Miami stemmed primarily from the schools football success. But how does the jump affect Tech's 20 other sports. Steve Mason has more.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=]
[SUPER=03-Blacksburg; :00]
[SUPER=01-Keith Mourlam/Va. Tech Wrestling Coach; :11]
[SUPER=01-Chuck Hartman/Va. Tech Baseball Coach; :34]
[SUPER=@Steve1; :46]
[SUPER=01-Ned Skinner/Va. Tech Swimming Coach; 1:01]
[SUPER=01-Bonnie Henrickson/Va. Tech Women's Basketball Coach; 1:10]
[SUPER=01-Seth Greenberg/Va. Tech Men's Basketball Coach; 1:33]
[RUNS=1:54]
[OUT Q=....News 7 sports"]
(---------------)

[S-Golf]

[ANCHOR=Mike]
[NEWSCAST=6pm]
[WRITER=mst]
[TAPE#=sp-141 20335tc]
[GRAPHIC=golf]

Tomorrow Roanoke native, Vickie Linkous will make some history when the former Patrick Henry star becomes the first Roanoke native ever to play in the women's US Open golf championship in North Plains, Oregon.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT]
[IN Q=BITE]
[SUPER=01-Vickie Linkous/Plays in U. S. Open Tomorrow; :09]
[RUNS=:15]
[OUT Q=....HAVE BEEN RECENTLY."]
(-----------)
[VO NAT CON'T]
[SUPER=03-Williamsburg; :00]
We'll have more on Vickie's amazing 20 year journey from the Scott Robertson to the US Open tonight on News 7 at 11.
(------------)

[Rescue-Mission]
[NEWSCAST=6]
[WRITER=rca]
[TAPE#=03-15 TC3:58:22]
[ANCHOR=Keith 2-Shot]

Roanoke's Rescue Mission is celebrating a birthday.
[ANCHOR=Shannon 2-Shot]
(------------)
[VO-NAT :11]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke;]
Supporters helped honor the mission's 55th year today by playing happy birthday with kazoos and feasting on cupcakes.

Lois Johnson Bettis joined the festivities. She founded the mission in 19-48.
(///// SOT /////)
[SOT 00:04:16]
[IN Q=IT'S REALLY BEEN ]
((LOIS JOHNSON BETTIS/RESCUE MISSION FOUNDER; IT'S REALLY BEEN A GREAT LIFE, I WOULDN'T TRADE IT, EVEN KNOWING WHAT I KNOW NOW YOU KNOW I WOULD STILL DO IT ALL AGAIN.))
[SUPER=01-Lois Johnson Bettis/Rescue Mission Founder;]
[RUNS=:10]
[OUT Q=DO IT ALL AGAIN.]
(------------)
[VO-NAT]
Bettis says what started as a small mission has grown into an important Christian Crisis Intervention Center. (------------)