Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 3, 1991 TAG: 9104030462
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By LAURENCE HAMMACK STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
None of the three people beaten - Clarence Fuller, 56; Charles B. Kinney, 20; and Crystal H. Patterson, 21 - was injured seriously enough to be hospitalized, police said.
Fuller told police he was asleep in an upstairs bedroom of the house in the 1300 block of Gilmer Avenue when an intruder pulled him from bed and led him downstairs at gunpoint about 1:50 a.m.
Once downstairs, Fuller and the two other victims were beaten.
The men, who brandished handguns, said they wanted money they believed was in the house, police said. When police arrived, an officer saw two men jump into a car that sped off.
The car was stopped at 10th Street and Staunton Avenue, and police arrested Robert Marcellus Manns Jr., 20, of 10th Street Northwest, and Ahmad H. Murdi, 22, of Wells Avenue. They face charges of brandishing firearms and assault.
Roanoke police also reported:
Three Northwest Roanoke youths were arrested after two people complained of being harassed at Franklin Road automobile dealerships over the weekend.
The youths - 12 to 14 years old - face charges that include brandishing a gun and unrelated offenses of stealing clothing from a Roanoke County sporting goods store.
by CNB