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

DATE: THURSDAY, June 28, 1990                   TAG: 9006280237
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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ROANOKE MAN CLAIMS BEATING IN GROUP ATTACK

A man has reported to police that he was beaten by several men on 11th Street Northwest in Roanoke as he walked on the street Monday night.

Jeffrey Wayne Dickerson, 31, of Abbott Street Northwest told police Tuesday morning that he had been walking on 11th Street about 10 p.m. when several men who had been sitting on a wall jumped off and began to beat him.

Dickerson said he was knocked to the sidewalk and the men continued to kick him. At least one had an object in his hand and struck Dickerson on the head with it, authorities said. Dickerson told police he did nothing to provoke the attack.

Authorities have said that other recent attacks in the area of 11th Street appeared to be racially motivated. But authorities said Dickerson is black and reported that the men who beat him were black.

Dickerson told police the men left him when a car carrying his friends arrived at the scene.

Dickerson was treated Monday at Roanoke Memorial Hospital for injuries to his head and left leg. He was not seriously injured, police said.

by CNB