Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 11, 1993 TAG: 9306110272
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: RADFORD LENGTH: Medium
Roger Lee Dodson, 41, of Pembroke, was shot by the deputy during the apparent escape attempt in January. State police and Radford investigators concluded that Deputy Steve Tolbert acted properly.
Dodson was shot in the left side of his chest after a struggle at the door of a secured hospital room. Dodson had been taken to the hospital after he complained of chest pains while at the Floyd County Jail.
He had been arrested two days earlier after being a fugitive from Floyd County charges for four years. Dodson had been wanted since 1989 on charges of sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and grand larceny.
Others indicted by the grand jury Thursday included:
Three Radford men who are accused of maliciously wounding another Radford man after a dispute at a keg party.
At a preliminary hearing in April, Rodney Epperly II testified that Desi Delaney, Ethan T. Charlton and Jay Walson, all 19 years old, were among about a dozen who attacked him at a party at 133-B Norwood St. on Nov. 14.
Epperly said he was attacked after party organizers got upset that he had not paid a $2 cover charge.
Epperly testified in April that he was hit about 50 times - twice with 40-ounce beer bottles. He received four stitches in his head.
Witnesses for the defense, however, said the altercation occurred after Epperly hit and kicked one of the party's organizers in the head.
The grand jury also returned a robbery indictment charging Charlton with stealing a watch valued at $175 from Richard Simpson.
Epperly testified that Charlton attacked Simpson near an automatic teller machine on Radford University's campus Nov. 14 before the keg party.
Christopher A. Hairston, 19, of Ninth Street, Radford, on charges of breaking into a Second Avenue apartment in February and stealing guns, fishing equipment and a watch.
Most of the items have been recovered, Commonwealth's Attorney Randal Duncan said in February.
Hairston, a stand-out basketball player for the Radford High School Bobcats, was suspended from the team after his arrest.
Brian A. Canaday, 19, of Fairfax Street, Radford, also was indicted on a charge of grand larceny from the apartment. Both men waived preliminary hearing in April.
Levi K. Jones, who is charged with failing to pay $1,000 or more in state sales tax for the Scoreboard Sports Bar and Grill on Norwood Street between Oct. 21 and Dec. 21, 1992.
by CNB