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

DATE: TUESDAY, March 26, 1991                   TAG: 9103260444
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: BOYDTON                                LENGTH: Short

MAN ARRESTED IN KILLING THAT TOOK PLACE IN 1974

An arrest has been made in a 17-year-old murder case, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Lawrence Clary said Monday.

Melvin Bennett Jr., 35, of Kenbridge, was charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in a felony in the slaying of Horace Linwood Liles.

Liles, 24, was shot to death on Sept. 29, 1974, at the G&R Texaco station on U.S. 1 near South Hill.

Clary said Bennett was arrested Friday and was being held in the county jail under $100,000 bond.

- Associated Press

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