Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 5, 1994 TAG: 9402070266
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Short
David Allen Lawson, 23, of Bob White Boulevard had pleaded guilty last May to malicous wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and using a firearm to commit a felony. Friday, he received a life sentence on the wounding charge and 12 years in prison for the other two charges.
Lawson had told authorities he and another man charged in the shooting had picked Curtis Clayton Sifford as a random target. Sifford was shot in the face with a 12-gauge shotgun as he drove down U.S. 11 near Fairlawn on his way to work at about 4 a.m. on Nov. 14, 1992.
Sifford continued driving until he flagged down a motorist for help. Sifford's lip and lower face are still numb and part of his arm, used to help repair his face, has lost strength and mobility.
At Lawson's hearing last May, Commonwealth's Attorney Everett Shockley told Judge Dow Owens that Lawson and Christopher D. McGlothlin were friends and had "talked to some extent about what it would be like to kill somebody."
Lawson told investigators McGlothlin shot Sifford.
Last December, McGlothlin told a jury he had no memory of his involvement in the shooting because he was drinking heavily that night and taking prescription drugs.
McGlothlin was found guilty of the same charges to which Lawson had pleaded guilty. The jury set his punishment at life in prison plus 12 years and a $100,000 fine.
by CNB