ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, August 6, 1996 TAG: 9608060082
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
A 12-year-old girl was raped early Monday in a relative's home in Northwest Roanoke. Police said they have not identified the assailant.
Police gave this account: About 1:25 a.m., the girl accompanied an older sister to the sister's house, where there was a party with three men. The girl went to bed. A short time later, the sister noticed that one of the men had disappeared. When the sister checked on the 12-year-old girl, she was unable to get into the room because someone was holding the door shut.
By the time the sister entered the room, a man apparently had left by a window. Police said the girl told her sister that the man entered the room through a broken window and raped her.
The girl was treated at Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital.
In other incidents over the weekend:
* Police charged two men with robbing a Southwest Roanoke man of $125 early Sunday.
Early Sunday morning, two men posing as federal agents came to the house of Howard Allen St. Clair on Chapman Avenue. Police said the men pointed 9mm pistols at St. Clair and his son, flashed ID cards, placed St. Clair over the hood of a car and said they were "police federal agents," according to a Roanoke police news release. St. Clair gave them $125.
Thomas Neil Hudson, 25, and Paul Linwood Hutchinson, 25, both of 12th Street Southwest, were each charged with robbery and use of a firearm in a felony. They were released on their own recognizance Monday.
* About 3 a.m. Saturday, two teen-agers were robbed by masked armed men in Southeast Roanoke, police said. No one was injured. The robbers escaped police by jumping from the getaway car.
Zachariah Arthur Hill, 18, and Vernon Scott Miller, 19, were on the lot of a restaurant on Jamison Avenue Southeast when a red car pulled onto the lot. Police said two men wearing masks and waving a revolver demanded jewelry, clothing and beepers. The robbers took shoes, shirts, necklaces, bracelets, pagers and $295 in cash from Hill and Miller.
An officer arrived on the scene as the red car fled the area. The two robbers jumped from the car near 14th Street and Greenbriar Avenue in Southeast Roanoke.
* A Stop In Food Store in Southwest Roanoke was robbed early Saturday, police said.
About 2:20 a.m., a man walked into the store at 1828 Memorial Ave. and asked the price of an item. The man walked to the counter and ordered the clerk to open the cash register and give him all the money. The clerk gave the robber some cash. The robber fled on foot.
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