Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 7, 1991                   TAG: 9103070582
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LOVINGSTON                                LENGTH: Short

JILTED BOYFRIEND LEFT HER FOR DEAD, WOMAN TESTIFIES

"He asked me how I wanted to die," Uganda Y. George said Wednesday of ex-boyfriend Marshall A. Jones. "He said I had three choices: he could shoot me in the head, give me sodium pentothal, or give me a Colombian bow tie."

"I said, `shoot me.' He said `no, that was too easy,' " said George, a student at the University of the District of Columbia.

Although her throat was slashed three times, her assailant didn't complete the Colombian bow-tie - in which a person's tongue is pulled through a slit in the throat.

George's testimony at the preliminary hearing Wednesday prompted Nelson County General District Judge Coy M. Kiser Jr. to certify the attempted murder charges pending against Jones, 24, of Washington, and companion Benjamin B. Buckhanan, 24, of Takoma Park, Md. A grand jury is to review the case.

Buckhanan gave Nelson County deputies a written statement that he and Jones abducted George from her apartment in Silver Spring, Md., about 11 p.m. on Jan. 19, Deputy Robert L. Crews testified. She was bound and gagged with tape, put in the trunk of a car and driven to Nelson County, where the knife attack occurred about 3 a.m. on U.S. 29 at Virginia 617.

On the night she was abducted, George called Jones and told him she wanted to end their relationship, she said. He arrived at her home with his best friend, Buckhanan, to pick up his things, she testified.

As she saw the pair to the door, they forced her outside and into the back seat of a car, she testified.