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

DATE: SUNDAY, February 24, 1991                   TAG: 9102240259
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

WOMAN SENTENCED IN SON'S SHOOTING

Prosecutors described Donna A. Culpepper, a 36-year-old mother of four, as a "Mafia mom."

In June, Culpepper and her 13-year-old daughter sat outside in a parked car as gang members shot their way into a party attended by her son, Terry Poff, and members of another gang. Poff, then 17, and an 18-year-old were wounded.

"She said she wanted to mother them," Circuit Judge Lydia C. Taylor said. "But what she truly wanted to do was be one of them." - Associated Press