ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, August 18, 1996 TAG: 9608190097
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
Man gets 43 years to stop laughing
FAIRFAX - A Maryland man has been sentenced to 43 years in prison for the shooting death of an Australian nanny who worked for a Fairfax family.
Earl Ray Scott, 23, of Suitland, burst out laughing several times before he told Circuit Judge Robert W. Wooldridge that he didn't know what he was doing when he shot Dena Perera six times with a 9mm pistol in December.
``The taking of another life without any justification is the ultimate act of inhumanity,'' Wooldridge said in handing down the sentence.
Scott was sentenced to 40 years for first-degree murder and three for the use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
Perera, 22, had lived with the Fairfax family since March 1995. She met Scott at a subway station and soon started dating him. She was found dead Dec. 18, 1995, in the family's house.
- Associated Press
Police say woman set boyfriend ablaze
RICHMOND - A woman accused of dousing her boyfriend with kerosene and setting him ablaze has been arrested.
Patricia Evangeline Delaney, 35, also known as Patricia Johnson, was arrested Friday in an abandoned building in South Richmond.
Delaney was charged with malicious wounding in a Wednesday morning attack on Benjamin Martin, 46. Martin was set on fire while he slept, police said.
Martin suffered second- and third-degree burns and was admitted to Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in critical condition.
- Associated Press
Woman accused of microwaving cat
FRONT ROYAL - A Front Royal woman was arraigned Friday on a charge of microwaving her cat to death, authorities said.
Carrie Poe was charged Tuesday with a misdemeanor count of cruelty to an animal, according to police Capt. R.E. Goldizen. She was arraigned in the General District Court of Warren County.
The animal was a common house cat that belonged to Poe, said Patty Morris, director of the Warren County Humane Society. Investigators don't know why the cat was killed, she said.
- Associated Press
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