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

DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990                   TAG: 9005220553
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: TAZEWELL                                LENGTH: Short

TAZEWELL COUNTY MAN ARRAIGNED IN SLAYINGS

A Tazewell County man was arraigned Monday on charges growing out of the April 16, 1989, murders of three members of a Pocahontas family.

The arraignment of Ricky Perdue came a week before another county resident, Samuel S. Ealy, goes on trial for capital murder in the fatal shootings of Robert and Una Mae Davis and the woman's 14-year-old son, Bobby Hopewell.

Perdue, who lives in Bossevain, is charged with having helped plan the murders.

- Southwest bureau

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