
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, November 26, 1993                   TAG: 9311260101
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: TODD JACKSON
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

STRAY BULLET NARROWLY MISSES GIRL

An 8-year-old girl was struck by flying plaster after a bullet tore a hole in the kitchen wall as the child's family was having its Thanksgiving dinner.

Just after 7 p.m. Thursday, Roanoke police said, random gunfire struck the home in the 800 block of Gilmer Avenue Northwest.

Reached by phone Thursday night, the girl's grandmother, Shirley Glenn, said the bullet came "very close" to hitting her granddaughter. The girl was treated for minor injuries.

According to Lt. Ron Carlisle of the Roanoke Police Department, the bullet was fired from a large caliber weapon and entered the home after exiting an empty house at Gilmer Avenue and Eighth Street.

Additional shots were fired in the Gilmer Avenue area later Thursday night, but police had not determined whether they were related to the earlier incident.

by CNB