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

DATE: MONDAY, July 23, 1990                   TAG: 9007230271
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: EVENING 
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STABBINGS, BEATING, RAPE INCESTIGATED BY CITY POLICE

Two Roanoke women were stabbed, another was stabbed and raped, and a man was beaten with a shovel by a group of men on Hunt Avenue Northwest in unrelated incidents over the weekend, police said today.

Police are investigating the following reports:

Norman Grant Hairston, 31, of the 1700 block of Orange Avenue, told police that four men beat him with a shovel and pelted him with beer bottles at 709 Hunt Ave. N.W. about 12:55 a.m. Saturday.

Hairston, who kicked down the door of a nearby apartment to escape the assailants, later refused treatment at Community Hospital, police said.

Hairston was charged with disorderly conduct after he returned to Hunt Avenue and angrily confronted several people in the area.

A 34-year-old woman told police that a man she knew came to her home in Northwest Roanoke Saturday afternoon and stabbed her twice in the lower back and once in the arm with a steak knife.

After throwing the woman to the floor and beating her, the man forced her into a bedroom and raped her, police said.

Warrants were obtained charging the man, whose identity was not released, with rape and malicious wounding.

Two women were treated for knife wounds and two others were charged with malicious wounding in unrelated incidents.

Mitzi Jean Horten, 26, was charged with the malicious wounding of Debra Wade, 38, at Dunbar Street Northwest at 10:37 p.m. Sunday.

Sonya Minnis, 29, of the 800 block of Hanover Avenue Northwest, was charged with the malicious wounding of Rochelle Inez Muse, 24, of the 1400 block of Loudon Avenue Northwest at 4:05 p.m. Friday.

Police also reported the following incidents over the weekend:

Three men were charged with impeding police as authorities attempted to arrest two women for trespassing at the Hardee's restaurant at 3011 Hershberger Road N.W.

Authorities said the men made threatening, racial remarks to officers who responded to the scene at 2:47 a.m. Saturday to assist a Hardee's security guard.

One of the men was charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon after police found a fully loaded revolver and 40 rounds of ammunition.

A robber displayed a revolver to a clerk at the Raceway convenience store at 1021 Orange Avenue before taking a 12-pack of beer and fleeing on a motorcycle.

No one was injured in the incident, which occurred at 4 a.m. Sunday.

by CNB