Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 16, 1991 TAG: 9104160612
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B2 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: Laurence Hammack
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The woman said she was walking to a nightclub about 11:30 p.m. when a man in his 20s approached her and asked if he could buy her a drink, city police said today.
As they walked in the 1100 block of Loudon Avenue, the man grabbed her by the neck, forced her to the ground and sodomized her, the woman told police.
The woman then pulled a large hunting knife from her purse and stabbed the man three times in the right leg.
The man jumped into a nearby car and fled, and has not been located by police. A passing couple stopped to help the woman, who was treated at Community Hospital for cuts and bruises.
Police found evidence of a struggle at 1127 Loudon Ave., a vacant home. The woman's hairpiece and one of her earrings were found on the front porch of the home, police said.
In other reports today from Roanoke police:
A 15-year-old boy was shot in the arm Monday night as he and another 15-year-old examined a gun.
Jerome Jones, of Ferdinand Avenue Southwest, was treated at Community Hospital for a gunshot wound to his left forearm. Jones told police that the other youth came to his home about 7:40 p.m. with a gun that he said he found in an alley.
Police said the gun was reported stolen.
The youth told authorities that he accidentally shot Jones while playing with the gun - pointing it at the 15-year-old and pulling the trigger twice.
An investigation has been turned over to the Police Department's Youth Bureau.
A Southeast Roanoke man was charged with malicious wounding Monday night in connection with an argument in which his live-in girlfriend was cut in the hand with a butcher knife.
Clarice R. Robertson, 32, of the 600 block of Dale Avenue, told police she grabbed a knife in self-defense after a man began to slap her around during an argument in the home about 10:20 p.m.
The man took the knife from Robertson and cut her in the hand, she told police. She was treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
James Winfred Simpson, 35, was charged with malicious wounding.
by CNB