Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 7, 1994 TAG: 9406070087
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: |By TODD JACKSON| |STAFF WRITER|
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
"It was beautiful day," Darlene Allen said.
But the day took a violent twist when Aubrey Allen was shot and killed. Bedford County sheriff's deputies found his body Sunday night in a field off Walnut Ridge Drive.
Allen, 42, apparently died from a shotgun wound to his chest.
No charges had been filed Monday.
Sheriff Carl Wells declined to comment about possible suspects.
Darlene Allen said in a phone interview Monday that she witnessed the shooting. According to Allen, her husband drove the Go Kart to the home of a neighbor with whom he had a confrontation earlier in the afternoon.
Allen said she followed her husband in a car.
When Aubrey Allen reached the neighbor's residence, a man came out from behind a truck and opened fire, she said.
Fearing she might be shot, Darlene Allen said, she turned the car around and went back to her home, where she telephoned a neighbor and then made an emergency call.
She said her husband had been diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1991. She said she believes the shooting was the result of ill feelings toward him because of his condition.
Earlier this year, Aubrey Allen was accused of spitting on the daughter of a neighbor. Darlene Allen said that had been resolved out of court.
Bedford County Common-wealth's Attorney Jim Updike could not be reached for comment Monday night.
Aubrey Allen had been convicted of attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle in Salem in 1976. Twelve months of a remaining nine-year probation on those convictions was revoked when he pleaded guilty to assaulting a prostitute in Vinton in 1984.
He was sentenced to 30 days in jail for the assault charge and 30 days for giving a false report to a police officer.
Staff writer Richard Foster contributed information to this story.
by CNB