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

DATE: SATURDAY, May 5, 1990                   TAG: 9005050373
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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SECOND SHOOTING TERM GIVEN

A Roanoke teen-ager convicted three years ago of shooting a classmate as he stepped off a school bus received a 60-day jail sentence Friday in an unrelated firearms case.

Anthony L. Kasey, 18, of Northwest Roanoke pleaded guilty to a charge of property damage.

Kasey had been charged with shooting into an occupied car last October, a felony. But under an agreement reached in Roanoke Circuit Court, the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.

In exchange, Kasey agreed to serve a 60-day jail sentence to be followed by 12 months of probation and a suspended 10-month sentence.

No one was injured, although the shooting caused minor damage to the car. Kasey also was ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

In 1987, Kasey was tried as a juvenile and sentenced to an indeterminate term for the malicious wounding of Melvin Claude Anderson IV, who was shot twice as he stepped of a school bus in Northwest Roanoke.

Testimony showed that Kasey planned the shooting to settle a grudge over a fight in a school cafeteria.

He ended up serving less than six months in a state juvenile detention home on the charge.

by CNB