
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 10, 1991                   TAG: 9103100230
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: E-3   EDITION: METRO 
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BOONES MILL MAN KILLED BY STABBING

A Boones Mill man who was stabbed in the chest Friday night during an argument at a Southeast Roanoke house died early Saturday, police say.

William C. Bowyer, 48, was pronounced dead at 3:10 a.m. at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, according to a hospital nursing supervisor.

Roanoke Police arrested Sterling Nathaniel Oakes, 54, of the 1100 block of Morgan Avenue, where the stabbing occurred.

Oakes was charged Friday night with malicious wounding, but a police spokesman said the charge will be revised to murder.

Oakes apparently was released on bond Saturday.

Police had no other details of the stabbing Saturday. A woman who answered the door at the house where the stabbing took place declined comment.

A native of Bedford, Bowyer lived in Franklin County and worked as a painter, according to his father, Silas Bowyer of Bedford.

Silas Bowyer said he knew nothing about details of his son's death. "I'm trying to find out myself," he said.

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