Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 20, 1994 TAG: 9408220097
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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Police said two men fitting the same basic description may have been responsible for all three robberies.
At 10:05 p.m. Thursday, two men entered the Happy Store on Apperson Drive in Salem and demanded that the cashier give them money. One of the men displayed a gun, police said.
They fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
At 3:45 a.m. Friday, two men fitting the same basic description walked into the Uni Mart in the 1200 block of Jamison Avenue in Roanoke. One man jumped over the counter and struck the clerk in the face, police said.
The clerk ran outside and called for help as the robbers attempted to open the cash register, police said. The men then fled, one of them dropping a box of rolled coins as he ran.
The third robbery happened about 5 a.m. Friday at the Market Place on Plantation Road in Roanoke County. Two men entered the store, confronted the clerk and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the register..
In other police reports Friday:
A 41-year-old Roanoke County man was the victim of a carjacking that started in the parking lot of a Northwest Roanoke convenience store and ended several hours later when he flagged down a police officer.
Thomas W. Woods of Circle Brook Drive told police he was parked at the B&G Grocery on Lafayette Boulevard about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when two men approached him. One man placed a gun to Woods' side and told him to drive as they got into the car, Woods told police.
After several hours - during which Woods was struck in the back of the head - he was dropped off near Staunton Park, police said. He later waved down a passing police officer and was taken to Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley.
Police said a 15-year-old faces charges in the incident.
A 32-year-old man told police he was beaten by a group of men as he walked on Patterson Avenue Southwest on Thursday afternoon. Donald Stevens of Marshall Avenue was treated at Community Hospital after being struck in the head with a piece of concrete.
by CNB