Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 15, 1991 TAG: 9103150908
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C1 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: MELANIE S. HATTER AND RON BROWN STAFF WRITERS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Curtis Ronnie Hilton, 18, of the 1100 block of Rugby Boulevard Northwest in Roanoke and Maurice Daniel Dooley, 19, of North Drive in Christiansburg both were wounded by gunfire when two assailants approached them as they sat in a parked car, police said today.
Hilton was listed in stable condition today at Community Hospital. An official at Roanoke Memorial Hospital would not release information on Dooley's condition at the request of family members.
Dooley was being treated for two gunshot wounds to his head, plus shots to his chest and arm. Hilton was shot in the hand and lower back, police said.
No arrests have been made as an investigation continues.
The shooting happened about 6:15 p.m. on the 2000 block of Gandy Drive Northwest. At least two people approached the car Hilton and Dooley were in and, after a brief exchange, opened fire on the two teen-agers as they sat in the car, police said.
When police arrived, one youth was lying in the street and the other on the sidewalk.
Police say they had obtained warrants charging Hilton with being involved in a Wednesday night shooting.
In that shooting, 18-year-old Recceion Jones was shot in the leg after being approached by two men on the 400 block of Harrison Avenue.
Police said Hilton has been charged with being a principle in that incident, but declined to comment today on whether the two shootings are related.
At the scene of the shooting, a black hat lay in the middle of the road next to a pool of blood. Broken glass from the car windows glistened under the street lights.
Police investigators found at least five shell casings in the vicinity of Gandy Drive, where the two men were lying next to a small foreign car that had several bullet holes in it.
Carolyn Hardy, 25, had been visiting her grandmother, who lives on Gandy Drive, and usually parks her car where the foreign car was sitting.
"If my car had been parked there I could've been hit," she said. "It don't make no sense.. . . You look at it and you wonder why."
Hardy, of Southwest Roanoke, said police should patrol the area on foot because police cars driving through the area don't make any difference.
"Then you wouldn't have people standing around. There'd be someone to tell them to move on," she said. Hardy's fear is for her almost 70-year-old grandmother. "Once it gets dark, it gets crazy," Hardy said. "I wish I was rich; I'd take her out of these projects."
Staff writer Laurence Hammack provided information for this story.
by CNB