ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 30, 1996 TAG: 9604300118
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI
A man who drove away from a traffic stop hit a C.O.P.E. officer on bike patrol in Northwest Roanoke on Saturday afternoon.
Police gave this account of what happened:
About 4:45 p.m., two officers saw a man they knew did not have a driver's license and stopped him near Villa Heights Park. Officer C.C. Perkins stopped the car. The man, whom police would not name, yelled that he "got it back," apparently referring to his driver's license, police said.
Then the man accelerated and hit Officer Eric P. Charles of the Community Oriented Policing Effort. Charles was knocked off his bicycle and rolled into the rear of the suspect's car, but was not injured.
The suspect fled, driving through two stop signs on Clifton Street Northwest at intersections with Crescent Street and Lafayette Boulevard Northwest.
Charles obtained a warrant charging the man with attempted malicious wounding. The man was still being sought Monday.
In another incident over the weekend, a 36-year-old man is accused of beating a female acquaintance unconscious Saturday night in Southeast Roanoke.
Jose Delacerda was charged with malicious wounding after the woman identified him as her assailant. Police found him in an apartment at Indian Village Apartments, a public housing development in Southeast Roanoke.
About 7:53 p.m. Saturday, a witness saw Sharon Kyle Craighead being beaten by a man at the corner of Eighth Street and Campbell Avenue Southeast, police said. When officers arrived, Craighead was unconscious and bleeding from the head.
Police said witnesses told them Craighead had been in a nearby bar with the man they saw beating her.
Craighead remained in serious condition Monday at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Delacerda was in Roanoke City Jail, unable to post his $2,500 bond.
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