ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 22, 1997 TAG: 9704220110
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BETTY HAYDEN SNIDER THE ROANOKE TIMES
The Roanoke County resident hoped to get some crack for betraying her friends, prosecutors said.
A Roanoke County woman will serve five years in prison for her part in the Nov. 4 malicious wounding of two house guests who were sleeping in her home.
Brenda Hearn, 32, was sentenced Monday in Roanoke County Circuit Court.
On Nov. 4, Hearn invited Junior Glass and his girlfriend, Chastity Elliott, to her Carson Road home to smoke crack cocaine, prosecutors have said. After the couple went to bed, she drove to Troy Alexander's home and told him where Glass and Elliott were.
Hearn hoped that Alexander, who said Glass owed him $600, would give her drugs in exchange for the information, prosecutors said.
She drove Alexander to her home and waited in her truck while he went inside and shot the couple, prosecutors said. He later said he only meant to scare Glass and thought the bullets hit the floor.
Glass and Elliott were wounded but recovered.
Alexander pleaded no contest and was convicted in February of two counts of malicious wounding and two firearm charges. He was sentenced April 7 to 38 years in prison, but 24 years were suspended.
Hearn was sentenced to 10 years in prison for two counts of malicious wounding, Roanoke County Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Rick Buchanan said. After serving two years, the remainder of that sentence will be suspended.
She also received the mandatory three-year sentence for using a firearm in commission of a felony, Buchanan said. A second firearm charge was dismissed.
Hearn will serve a total of five years in prison, which Buchanan recommended because Hearn cooperated in the Alexander case.
Her attorney was satisfied with the outcome.
"She wasn't slapped on the hand," Greg Phillips said. "She got a stiff sentence, but it was fair in proportion to what she did."
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