Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 9, 1994 TAG: 9407120033
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By MICHAEL STOWE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
In emotional testimony at a preliminary hearing, Angela Shepherd told Judge Julian Raney that she shot Bosue after he pushed his way into her apartment, pinned her to the floor and unbuttoned her shorts.
"As soon as I opened the door, he was in there on top of me," she said. "The whole time I was trying to get the gun out of my pocket. That's all I was concentrating on."
Raney denied bond for Bosue, a 24-year-old Haitian refugee who had been in Roanoke just four days.
Shepherd said that she first saw Bosue around 10 p.m. June 6 when he and another man began making sexual gestures at her through the window while she was in the laundry room.
The woman said she returned to her apartment and told her boyfriend what happened. He exchanged words with the two men.
Shepherd said she saw the two men again the next morning around 8:30 a.m., when she went out on her apartment balcony to yell for her cat.
"They were out in back of their apartment imitating me," she said. "I heard them holler 'Frisky, Frisky.' "
Shepherd said she was frightened, closed the door and put a .25-caliber handgun in the pocket of her shorts.
She said she went outside a second time without incident, but testified that Bosue was waiting when she opened the door to go look for her cat a third time.
She said Bosue pushed her to the floor, and as he put on a condom, she shot him.
He cried out in surprise and fled the apartment, she said. Police found him on Westover Avenue Southwest, bleeding from his left side.
Bosue speaks only French Creole. He kept his head bowed throughout the preliminary hearing, listening to an interpreter who was whispering the court proceedings into his ear.
Bosue's court-appointed attorney, Michelle Derrico, urged the judge to release Bosue on his own recognizance. She said the Haitian man, who is a legal alien in the country, is completely dependent on the Refugee and Immigration Services Office in Roanoke, a branch of the Richmond Catholic Diocese.
"He has no place to go and return to Haiti would be a death sentence," she said.
Raney refused, saying Bosue has no ties to the community.
by CNB