Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, April 22, 1991 TAG: 9104220197
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
For the second time in a month, a deliveryman said he couldn't find the same address in Southeast Roanoke.
For the second time in a month, a Domino's deliveryman was robbed.
City police said the manager noticed the similarities in the addresses and called police, who arrived too late to stop the 10:25 p.m. robbery.
Douglas D. Diamond, the 38-year-old deliveryman, said the robber waved a chrome revolver at him in the 1100 block of Crown Point Circle Southeast, demanded money and ran away with $9 and two pizzas.
Area police Sunday also reported the following incidents:
Two Roanoke men were charged with robbery after a suspect threatened to shoot a Williamson Road convenience store clerk Sunday morning.
Eugene Leftwich, 30, and Eric Guerrant, 31, were arrested after Roanoke County police officers R.F. Braford and Michael Warner spotted their car on Peters Creek Road shortly after 1:30 a.m.
County police Lt. S.B. Turner said a man walked into the Happy Store at 7105 Williamson Road, laid $5 on the counter, and asked for a pack of cigarettes.
When the clerk opened the register, the man said, "I want all your money or I'm going to shoot you."
Police said the man grabbed a handful of cash, ran out the door and fled in a car parked at a nearby motel. Turner said police recovered $104 in cash, but they found no gun.
An unwelcome guest was asked to leave a party in a Northwest Roanoke apartment Saturday, so he went go outside and fired an automatic weapon four times through a window. Police dug three bullets from the interior walls of the apartment in the 200 block of Westside Blvd.
James Earl Patterson, 22, of Northwest Roanoke allegedly was bashed in the head with a vinegar bottle Saturday after he refused to buy a woman perfume. Vanessa N. Lee, 26, was charged with assault and battery.
A 46-year-old Southeast Roanoke woman grabbed a baseball bat Friday to scare off three men who came to her house to beat her 20-year-old son. One of the men grabbed Bessie C. Arnold, took the bat away and hit her son on the head. Frank Arnold received 16 stitches and a concussion. Michael Keith Williams, 22, of the 1100 block of Crown Point Road, has been charged with malicious wounding.
Cody Austin McKay, 7, of 18th Street Southeast, was shot in the top of the head with a BB gun Sunday as he was standing in his front yard. An 11-year-old neighbor was being held until a hearing today.
by CNB