Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 2, 1993 TAG: 9310020205
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
Kelly Floyd Marshall, 20, of the Walton community, was also indicted on a charge of using a firearm while committing a felony.
Tabitha Jo Young Bell, 22, was found dead on her kitchen floor on Spaulding Road on May 6. Bell, who was nearly seven months pregnant, had been shot in the left side of her head with a shotgun.
Marshall and Bell had been arguing before the shooting, according to police reports. Marshall walked next door to his father's home and told his father's girlfriend what had happened.
At a preliminary hearing this year, a taped interview with Marshall was played in which he told investigators he shot and killed his girlfriend after they argued bitterly and she dared him to shoot her.
The Montgomery County grand jury handed up several other indictments Friday, including:
A felony hit-and-run indictment charging a Montgomery County woman with failing to stop after hitting another woman with her car May 30.
Peggy Jean Bishop, 30, of the 1600 block of Gallimore Street, is charged in connection with the death of Myrna J. Clendenin, 43, of Plum Creek. Clendenin was found dead along U.S. 11 near her home shortly after 5 a.m.
Bishop's attorney, Max Jenkins of Radford, has said that Bishop realized she had hit something and stopped her car several yards away but was unable to see anything in the early-morning fog.
Once she got home, Bishop sent her husband back to U.S. 11 to see what she had struck. After he told her there was a dead woman on the roadside and that police were there, a friend called Jenkins for Bishop.
Jenkins then notified authorities that he was representing Bishop.
An indictment accusing a Virginia Tech student of raping a Radford University student last spring during a party at a fraternity house.
Richard Todd Raines, 19, was charged with raping an 18-year-old woman in April.
The woman told Blacksburg police that she and several girlfriends were at a fraternity house on Ramble Road when she and another woman decided to go to a friend's room to sleep. Several hours later, she was awakened by a man who had partially undressed her and was raping her, she told police.
Four grand-larceny indictments accusing a Florida man of stealing textbooks from Virginia Tech professors' offices last spring.
Bernard Stanley Brennan, 47, of St. Petersburg was found guilty in July of 18 petty-larceny charges.
Hap Bonham, associate dean of administration and research, testified at a preliminary hearing this year that Brennan told him he was buying used books but did not have permission to be on campus.
Bonham said that when the man ran away as he was talking to him, he pursued the man into a parking lot, where Brennan got into his car.
During a search of the car, police found several boxes of books in the trunk and later found more books at a Christiansburg motel where Brennan was staying.
About 160 books were recovered. All but about 50 of them were later identified by Tech professors as having been stolen from their offices.
by CNB