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

DATE: MONDAY, February 11, 1991                   TAG: 9102110357
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

ROANOKE MAN KILLED WHEN SHOT THROUGH DOOR\UNKNOWN ASSAILANT KNOCKED, THEN

Paul Daniel Bostic of the 2200 block of Larchwood Street was dead on arrival at Roanoke Memorial Hospital after being shot once in the neck just before midnight, police said.

Bostic's wife, Patricia, 44, was treated for a gunshot wound she received in her arm, apparently from a gun fired by her husband in a reflex action after he was shot, police said.

Patricia Bostic told police that she heard a knock at the front door of her house just before midnight. She told her husband, who was already in bed, to "come and bring the gun," police said.

As her husband asked who was at the door and put his face up to frosted glass in the door, Patricia Bostic heard a gunshot and saw her husband stagger backward, police said.

Apparently after Bostic was shot, he fired his automatic handgun more than once, possibly in a reflex action. Patricia Bostic was struck once in the arm from that gunfire, authorities said.

Patricia Bostic told police the person at the door had responded with a female name when her husband asked for identification.

Police believe Bostic was shot through the storm door and the frosted glass in his front door. Only one bullet hole was in the doors, police said.

Bostic was found on the floor with an automatic handgun lying near him.

No arrests have been made in the case.

Detectives are following up on information provided by family members, police said. But authorities would not comment on whether they have a suspect or what a possible motive might be for the slaying.

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