Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1990                   TAG: 9007180547
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: EVENING 
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2 STABBED, 1 SHOT IN ROANOKE

Police gave the following account of the unrelated incidents:

At 12:10, a group of men and a woman approached Bobby Lee Hobbs of Vinton at a telephone booth on the 1200 block of Jamison Avenue Southeast.

One of the group members stabbed Hobbs in the neck, police said. Authorities said Hobbs, 25, was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital. An investigation is continuing.

At 12:50, an 18-year-old was shot twice in the leg as he got out of a car on the 1800 block of Dupree Street in the Lincoln Terrace housing project.

Kevin Dickerson, 19, of Abbott Street Northwest, told police that he heard several shots before realizing that he had been hit in the right leg.

Dickerson, who drove himself to Community Hospital, told police that he did not know who could have fired the shots or why.

At 1:30, Toby Deland Simpson was stabbed in the hip during an argument with his girlfriend at his home on the 800 block of Day Avenue Southwest.

Police said the argument began after Simpson came home and woke up the couple's 8-month-old daughter. Simpson, 20, was treated at Community Hospital. An investigation is continuing.