Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, March 4, 1991                   TAG: 9103040148
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Ron Brown
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

GUNSHOT VICTIM FOUND LYING NEAR WRECKED TRUCK

Police said Hugh Foster Murray, 27, of Northeast Roanoke, was found in the area of Eighth Street and Levelton Avenue about 7 a.m.

The truck had hit a hydrant and officers found blood spatters on the inside of one window. Police also found a shell casing from a small-caliber gun between the driver's seat and the door frame. It was later learned that Murray had been shot in the back of the head.

Murray, who was in serious condition in Roanoke Memorial Hospital Sunday night, has been unable to talk to police.

In other complaints reported by city police over the weekend:

Two men were beaten with pipes and poles Sunday after five or six teen-agers jumped out of a car and allegedly attacked them in the 2500 block of Bowman Street Northwest. Chester Ralph Turner, 50, of Northwest Roanoke, had head injuries and a broken arm. Benjamin L. Carr, 22, of Clearwater Avenue, had possible broken ribs and bruises. Some of the youths were wearing black T-shirts and motorcycle jackets adorned with the emblem of a rock band.

Two men suffered nose injuries in an attack Saturday night on Williamson Road, allegedly by a gang calling itself the L.O.D. Merle Alan Toner, 18, of Southeast Roanoke, who had a broken nose, and Leslie Howard Englehart, 18, of Salem, said they were beaten after the passengers of two vehicles jumped them about 11:15 p.m. David Marcellus Kingery, 18, of Salem, has been charged with assault and battery.