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

DATE: SUNDAY, March 17, 1991                   TAG: 9103170085
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

MAN CALLS POLICE, CONFESSES TO SLAYING

A man telephoned police and confessed to the slaying of a Charlottesville man who had been found stabbed to death, homicide investigators said.

Joseph Reginald Tucker, 31, originally of Wilmington, Del., called the Charlottesville Police Department about 3 a.m. Friday from a pay telephone at a Charlottesville convenience store, said Detective Steve Dillon.

"He said he had done something bad and wanted to talk with us about it," Dillon said.

Tucker later confessed to killing George Edward Walker, 40, a detoxification technician at the M.O. Mohr Center, Dillon said.

Police are searching for the murder weapon, believed to be a knife with a folding blade.

Tucker was being held Friday in the Charlottesville-Albemarle Joint Security Complex.

Police believe they have a motive for the slaying, but would not comment further.

by CNB