Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 2, 1991 TAG: 9104020399
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Jeff Leigh Washington, 19, of Delaware Avenue, faces charges of shooting in the city and carrying a concealed weapon.
Roanoke police said an officer in a second police car watched the man fire the shot. They provided the following account of events leading to his arrest:
When a city police car turned off Cove Road onto Delaware Avenue shortly before 1 a.m., an officer noticed two men walking down the street near Lafayette Boulevard and pulled up behind them.
He then watched as another police car rolled by on Lafayette.
The officer watched as one of the men reached down, pulled a gun from his left side and shot into the air. The officer saw fire coming from the barrel.
Police said the man then brought the gun down, stuffed it in his pocket and started running. He was caught on Lafayette Boulevard after police chased him down.
Police seized a five-shot pistol minus one shell from Washington after his arrest.
Area police Monday also reported the following incidents:
A Patrick County man faces a cruelty-to-animal charge in the throwing of a sick dog out the window of a moving car. The dog later died. Patrick County Sheriff Jay E. Gregory said James Robert Parker, 25, was already in jail on charges that he slapped a woman. He also is accused of stomping a jail commode to pieces.
Michael A. Harris, 27, who was driving a loaded gasoline tanker-truck that crashed through the Boones Mill Exxon ceramics shop last week, has been charged with reckless driving. The truck spilled 500 gallons of gas when a beam from the building pierced the tank. The cleanup is continuing.
A clerk in a small Franklin County grocery store fled out the back door when a masked bandit walked in demanding money Monday night. Franklin County Sheriff's Capt. Bill Overton said police were still trying to determine if money was taken from Mountain View Grocery on Virginia 919. State police tracking dogs had been called in to look for the suspect, who was believed to be armed.
A masked bandit in Salem fled on foot Sunday after he bound and gagged two clerks with duct tape at the Family Dollar Store on Wildwood Road. Salem Police Detective Sgt. Mike Fisher said the man, who took some cash, apparently hid in the store and robbed it after its 5 p.m. closing.
***CORRECTION***
Published correction ran on April 3, 1991\ Correction
Because of a reporter's error, a store robbed in Salem on Sunday was incorrectly identified in Tuesday's editions. It was a Dollar General Store. Also, because of incorrect information provided to the newspaper, the job titles of the two people bound and gagged during the robbery were incorrect. One was a cashier and the other was a store manager.
Memo: correction