Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, July 2, 1990 TAG: 9007020255
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A4 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: MIKE HUDSON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
A police spokesman today gave this description of the cases:
Bernard Hash, an employee of the Pizza Hut at 4005 Melrose Ave. N.W., reported that a man with a small handgun came into the restaurant about 9:20 p.m. Saturday and demanded money.
The man, who seemed to be drunk, took the cash and ran away.
Raymond Albert Jones, an employee of the C-Mart at 801 Franklin Road S.W., reported that two men came to the door of the convenience store about 10:40 p.m. Sunday as he was closing for the night.
Jones said the men, one brandishing a shotgun, pushed him back inside. They took the money bag, pushed Jones to the floor and ran down an alley near the business.
Police arrived at a home in the 1300 block of Gilmer Avenue Northwest late Saturday to find Ronnie Sylvester Divers holding a stick and bleeding from stab wounds.
Divers, 40, who lived at the address, had been stabbed in his stomach, side and arm. Divers said he had fought with his girlfriend and she had stabbed him. He said he beat her away with the stick.
The girlfriend told police that Divers had begun to beat another woman, and she had gotten the knife to come to the other woman's rescue. No charges have been filed, and the case is still being investigated.
Divers was taken to Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley. He was not at the hospital today, a spokeswoman said.
A man was getting into his car in a store parking lot at 1419 Hershberger Road N.W. Saturday night when he found another man inside the vehicle.
The car owner, Richard Lee McCulley Sr., 48, of Roanoke, reported that the intruder was obviously drunk. McCulley said the man at first said he had gotten into the wrong car, but then pulled out two knives and began to wave them at McCulley.
Several store employees came to McCulley's aid. The man ran away and was apprehended nearby by police. At first, police said, the man waved the knives at officers, but then he threw them on top of a police car.
Roy Allen Reed, 30, of the 600 block of Montrose Avenue Southeast, was charged with assault, being drunk in public, and property damage. Police said McCulley reported that someone had urinated on the seat of his car.
by CNB