Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 26, 1995 TAG: 9504260099
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Police gave this account:
Paul R. Reny, 22, of Southwest Roanoke told police he was selling a car stereo to an acquaintance Monday about 7 p.m. when the man grabbed $20 from him.
Two friends of Reny's - Michael Lee Bowman, 31, and Douglas Madison Weeks, 42 - went looking for the suspect several hours later. They found him with another man in an alley in the 300 block of Washington Avenue Southwest. The four men fought.
Police at 9:33 p.m. found Bowman and Weeks in the alley, stabbed. Weeks was treated at Roanoke Memorial Hospital and released. Bowman was in stable condition Tuesday in the hospital's neurotrauma progressive care unit, according to a nursing supervisor.
Police found two men near the wounded men in the alley; police later identified the men as Shane Ward, 18, of the 300 block of Washington Avenue Southwest and Michael Perry, 19, of the 3400 block of Locust Grove Lane, Roanoke County.
Ward and Perry were charged with malicious wounding. Reny later swore out an extortion and robbery warrant against Ward, accusing him of stealing money from him.
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