Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 5, 1991 TAG: 9104050728
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B3 EDITION: EVENING
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The chase began when police tried to stop a man driving an old-model Oldsmobile in Southwest Roanoke. The driver refused to stop, and several patrol cars joined the chase.
At one intersection, the driver backed his car into a patrol car behind him, then sped off again. The police officer in the car was treated and released from a hospital for minor injuries, police said.
As the pursuit crossed the county line, Roanoke County officers joined the chase, following the car up Bent Mountain on U.S. 221.
The chase ended near the Floyd County line when the pursued car broke down, police said.
William L. Warfe, 53, of the 2200 block of Russell Avenue Southwest was arrested and charged with drunken driving, hit-and-run and failing to stop for a police officer.
In other police reports today:
An 18-year-old Salem woman was shot in the foot Thursday night when two men fired handguns into a parked car she was sitting in on 11th Street Northwest. Renee L. Jones told police that she was in the car with several friends about 11:55 p.m. Two men approached the car, fired several shots and fled. Jones was treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital for a gunshot wound to her foot.
A home on the 500 block of Loudon Avenue Northwest was struck several times early today by shots that were apparently fired from a shotgun and a handgun. No one was injured when the shots were fired at Virginia Dungee's home about 12:30 a.m. An investigation is continuing.
A 31-year-old Roanoke woman told police that she was beaten and robbed early today as she walked on the 700 block of Hunt Avenue Northwest. Portia Cooper, of Leon Street Northwest, said a young boy and a woman knocked her to the ground about 1:30 a.m., took a small amount of money from her pocket and fled. She was not seriously injured.
by CNB