ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, July 6, 1996 TAG: 9607080071
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
Man dead, 2 injured in gunfight
STAUNTON - A Fourth of July gunfight at a park left one man dead, two others injured and police asking for witnesses to come forward with information that will help them piece together what happened.
Quentin Johnson, 20, of Arlington, was shot in Montgomery Hall Park. He died in a car as friends drove him from the scene, Staunton Police Chief G.L. Wells said Friday.
Another man in the car, 21-year-old Terrence McCoy of Amherst, suffered a gunshot wound to the arm, and 18-year-old Alonzo Waller of Staunton was shot in the hand, Wells said. Neither of the injuries was considered serious, and neither McCoy nor Waller was being held by police, Wells said.
Police revealed few details Friday about what caused the shootout.
- Associated Press
Richmond mayor's firm owes taxes
RICHMOND - A trucking company owned by Richmond's new mayor owes thousands of dollars in back taxes to the city and hundreds of thousands to the Internal Revenue Service.
Mayor Larry Chavis estimated Wednesday that Chavis Transfer Inc.'s tax liabilities are just less than $250,000, including penalties and interest.
City Council unanimously elected Chavis mayor Monday as a compromise candidate. Neither the previous mayor, Leonidas Young, nor challenger Viola Baskerville could line up the minimum five of nine votes.
Chavis said the federal liability stems from about $175,000 in income taxes the firm could not come up with for 1993. Penalties and interest since then have added about $100,000, but Chavis said the company has paid some of that.
- Associated Press
Wanted: Buyers for affordable homes
FAIRFAX - More affordable houses are for sale in Fairfax County because of a provision in the 1990 housing code, but one essential ingredient is still in short supply: needy buyers.
Under the code, developers building more than 50 houses must ensure that at least 12.5 percent of them are ``affordable'' - priced from about $65,000 to about $115,000, depending on size and other factors.
Now that the affordable houses are becoming more readily available, builders are wondering what happened to the teachers, firefighters and other working-class people that housing advocates said would line up to buy.
Thirty-two of the first 135 units built under the program remain unsold, many after more than six months and several after more than a year.
- Associated Press
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