
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 7, 1995                   TAG: 9504070067
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

ONE SHOT FIRED INTO HAIR SALON

After a foot pursuit through a Northwest Roanoke neighborhood, an 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with firing a round from his sidearm into a hair salon.

Alvin Eugene Brown Jr. of 16th Street Northwest was charged Thursday with attempted malicious wounding, shooting inside an occupied building and using a firearm in a felony.

Police gave this account of what happened: At about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, two men argued inside Hair Is at 2729 Melrose Ave. N.W. One of the men pulled a Tech-9 firearm from his belt, placed a round in the chamber and fired, police said.

The bullet hit a wooden stool. The man fled on foot.

A Roanoke detective attempted to arrest the man after seeing him in a cab a short time later. But an unidentified woman left a nearby dry cleaners, grabbed the detective from behind and placed herself between the detective and the man. The man fled on Cove Road.

A man, later identified as Brown, was located on Swarthmore Avenue after a resident saw him lying behind a house. The man ran from police and was arrested on Cove Road a short while later.

by CNB