Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, November 15, 1994 TAG: 9411150115
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
For 10 days, Alfred Curtis Cunningham, 39, of the 2100 block of Moorman Road Northwest, remained in critical condition at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, suffering from a gunshot wound to his neck and two gunshot wounds to his back. He died from those injuries at 11:35 p.m. Saturday.
Police have made no arrests in connection with Cunningham's shooting. Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell said detectives are continuing to investigate.
"At the appropriate time, charges will be placed," he said, but would not elaborate on what charges would be filed or when.
At 9:41 p.m. Nov. 3, police found rescue workers treating Cunningham, who was lying in a vacant lot between 2326 and 2330 Hanover Ave. N.W. A relative of Cunningham's said they had driven to the area to visit a cousin.
She told police that Cunningham left the car and walked across the street. Three men surrounded him. She said she heard three gunshots and saw Cunningham fall to the ground. The three men fled, running east on Hanover Avenue.
Cunningham's death is the third to be ruled a homicide by Roanoke police this year. The city had to claim its first homicide this year as a result of a record-keeping technicality.
On Sept. 9, the body of Pamela Gail Ramey of Lynchburg was found in the trunk of her car, which was parked in a Southwest Roanoke parking lot. Her former boyfriend, who killed himself in Bedford County just before she was found, was the prime suspect in that killing.
An autopsy report showed Ramey died from asphyxiation. But investigators were unable to prove exactly where she died. According to state law, if a murder site cannot be determined, the jurisdiction where the victim was found must take responsibility for the case.
On Nov. 1, after she had been missing for a week, the body of Virgie Green was found in the trunk of her car in the city's Old Southwest neighborhood. She had died from a blow to her head.
The three suspects in her slaying - Paul D. Thompson, 25, and David T. McKeone, 26, both of West Virginia, and Sherry Sprouse, 27, of Pittsburgh - are expected to be charged in her bludgeoning death.
They are currently being held in Amarillo, Texas.
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