ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 TAG: 9611060063
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
5-year-old apparently kills brother
LAWRENCEVILLE - A 7-year-old boy was shot and killed at his home, apparently by his 5-year-old brother, authorities said.
Officials declined Monday to release the children's names. The older brother was shot about 1 p.m. Saturday.
Brunswick County school Superintendent Dale Baird said both boys attended Sturgeon Elementary School. He said the older boy was in the second grade; the younger is a kindergartner.
Commonwealth's Attorney Leslie Green said no charges had been filed, and the 5-year-old was staying with his parents.
The children's mother was at home when the shooting occurred, Green said, but no one except the 5-year-old witnessed the shooting.
Baird said a school psychologist, counselor and nurse met with students Monday at Sturgeon Elementary.
- Associated Press
Lawyer identified as slaying victim
RICHMOND - Police have identified a woman who was found tied to a chair with her throat slashed in a Richmond law office.
Richmond police said Tuesday that the slain woman was Leslie Ann Coughenour, 44. She was an attorney in the law firm Carpenter & Woodward, in whose offices she was found.
No arrests had been made by Tuesday afternoon.
Police found Coughenour early Monday. They said she had probably been killed between 6 p.m. Sunday and 3:35 a.m. Monday.
Police were first alerted by Coughenour's roommate when Coughenour did not return home as expected.
- Associated Press
Child-molesting sitter gets 66 years
WILLIAMSBURG - A former Bruton Parish Church baby sitter was sentenced to 66 years in prison for sexually assaulting three children left in his care.
``I am truly sorry,'' Richard W. Weaverling, 19, said Tuesday before he was sentenced by Circuit Judge Samuel Powell. ``I pray that people will forgive me for what I've done. I believe in my heart that I will never do what I've done again.''
Weaverling pleaded guilty in August to rape, forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual battery. The crimes were committed in 1993 and 1994 at the church and in the home of two of the children, who are siblings. They involved two girls and a boy, all under the age of 8.
Weaverling already is serving seven years for molesting another child.
- Associated Press
Another teen-ager detained after rape
PETERSBURG - Two of the five teens charged with raping a girl at Piebald Middle School have had detention hearings at Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.
One 14-year-old was ordered held in Crater Juvenile Detention Home in Prince George County on Monday; a 13-year-old was released to his parents. Another 14-year-old had already been ordered to detention; the remaining two were released to their parents.
All five face a preliminary hearing Jan. 23 in Juvenile Court. Under state law, the three 14-year-olds could be tried as adults.
The five students were arrested Oct. 30 on charges of abducting and raping a 14-year-old female student.
- Associated Press
Missing woman found in pond
CHESTERFIELD - The body of a Chesterfield County woman who wandered away from her home Thursday has been found.
Police discovered the body of 49-year-old Peggy Ferguson Witt in a pond about 5 p.m. Monday. A passer-by saw something red floating in the pond and alerted police. Authorities said there was no reason to suspect foul play.
A rescue effort brought almost 100 people, including police, to look for her during the weekend.
- Associated Press
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