ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, December 31, 1996 TAG: 9612310092
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: LISA K. GARCIA
Police arrested a Dublin man Sunday in connection with a shooting that sprayed the right side of a woman's body with shotgun pellets. A suspect in a second, related shooting incident is still at large.
Cmdr. E.A. Hogston of the Pulaski Police Department said the 19-year-old victim was treated and released from Columbia Pulaski Community Hospital after doctors picked the pellets out of her skin. The pellets did not deeply penetrate the woman's skin, he said.
Police arrested Ronald B. Horton Jr., 22, on a charge of malicious wounding. Once arrested, police found that Horton was also wanted for a parole violation. He is being held without bond, Hogston said.
The incident began with an argument in Blacksburg between two groups of people late Saturday or early Sunday, according to Hogston. By 8:45 p.m. Sunday, the police were called to the scene of the shooting in front of an apartment complex on State Street.
Witnesses told police that the victim, her boyfriend and his brother drove to the apartments and were followed by a second car that carried the shooter and two or three other people.
Once the woman got out of the car, police said, a man got out of the second car with the shotgun and fired at the woman. The woman's boyfriend and brother panicked after the shooting and tried to drive away, Hogston said. Their car ran into a pole about a 100 feet down the street as the second car followed.
The victim's boyfriend and brother told police that another man got out of the second car and shot at them with a handgun. Hogston said police found seven spent casings apparently from the handgun, but the men could not give a good description of the man who shot at them.
Police are still investigating the incident and encourage anyone with information to call the Police Department at 980-1221.
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