Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 22, 1995 TAG: 9508220062
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RICHARD FOSTER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BEDFORD LENGTH: Medium
Herman Jerome Evans, 33, also was charged with breaking and entering with intent to murder, rape or rob. If convicted, he could face two to 10 years in prison for attempted murder and 20 years to life for the breaking and entering charge.
His former girlfriend, Pearl King, also of Bedford, was taken to Bedford County Memorial Hospital, where she was treated for multiple cuts and released.
According to Bedford police investigator Tony Sullivan, King took her two children out Friday night and returned to her home sometime between midnight and 1 a.m. Saturday.
Around 1 a.m., a man emerged from under her 12-year-old son's bed and went into King's bedroom, where she and a younger child were sleeping, Sullivan said. The man attacked King with a carving knife or butcher knife, he said, slashing her across her hands and face and the back of her neck.
The two struggled, Sullivan said, and the man fled.
Police arrived at King's house about 15 minutes later, Sullivan said. Evans was arrested at 1:45 a.m. at a car wash about 3 miles from King's house. The knife hasn't been found, Sullivan said.
Evans was convicted of malicious wounding, a felony, in 1990 for beating a man with a pistol. He was given a suspended sentence of six years in prison and he served eight months in jail.
In 1993, Evans was charged with breaking and entering into a different woman's house with the intent to commit assault and battery. That charge later was reduced to misdeameanor trespassing, of which he was convicted.
Evans is being held without bond in the Bedford County Jail.
by CNB