ROANOKE MAN IN HOSPITAL AFTER SHOOTING

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 3, 1992                   TAG: 9201030305
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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ROANOKE MAN IN HOSPITAL AFTER SHOOTING
A Roanoke man was in stable condition Thursday at Roanoke Memorial Hospital after being shot three times at a New Year's Eve party.
Police have charged 18-year-old Maurice Edmond Ferrell of 18th Street Southwest with attempted murder and using a gun to commit a felony.
Racceion N. Jones, 19, of Fairfax Avenue Northwest, was shot once in the neck and twice in the back during a party Tuesday night in the 1600 block of Chapman Avenue Southwest.
Police responding to the home at 11:40 p.m. found Jones slumped in a dining room chair.
About two hours later, Ferrell surrendered to police. He told authorities that Jones had cursed him at the party, apparently because of an argument over a mutual girlfriend, police said.
In other police reports Thursday:
An hour-long standoff between Roanoke police and a man armed with a shotgun ended early Wednesday when the man shot himself in the left thigh.
Police said James C. Tomlin was inside an apartment at the Hurt Park housing project, threatening to shoot himself or anyone else who entered. After negotiating with him for more than an hour, police rushed the apartment after they heard a gunshot.
Tomlin, 25, of New York City, was taken to Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
A man wearing a Halloween mask confronted two employees as they left the Shoney's restaurant on Hershberger Road Northwest late Wednesday. The man forced one of the employees back inside and fled with a bank bag containing an undetermined amount of money.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB