THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, July 28, 1994                TAG: 9407280548
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: KAREN E. QUINONES MILLER, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Medium:   52 lines

TEENAGER CHARGED WITH DOUBLE HOMICIDE A GIRL, 15, AND HER BOYFRIEND, 18, WERE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH THREE MONTHS AGO.

Kimberly McCullough remembered her sister Patricia's warning about Ronald Carter: Watch out for him, I think he's going to rob somebody.

A few days later, on April 29, Patricia McCullough, 15, and her boyfriend Tyri Carr, 18, were found shot to death in an apartment.

Carter was charged Tuesday night with capital murder and robbery in the killings.

``I thought he might be involved. He was the only one who was always around them, and then he disappeared after they were killed,'' Kimberly, 17, said.

Carter was arrested in Washington several weeks ago and charged with a malicious wounding in Norfolk in February. When police brought him back to Norfolk, they charged him in the slayings of the two teenagers.

Carter was a juvenile at the time of the malicious wounding case. He turned 18 April 21. That was just eight days before the double homicide.

He is being held without bail in the Norfolk City Jail on two counts of capital murder, two counts of robbery and four counts of use of a firearm in a felony.

``I'm glad he's not on the street but I don't think he can possibly get what he deserves,'' Kimberly said. ``No matter what happens to him, it won't bring my sister back.''

Kimberly said Carter lived with Carr at Carter's apartment in the 1500 block of Halstead Ave.

``I don't think my sister liked him, there was something about him,'' Kimberly said.

Patricia McCullough was a student at Booker T. Washington High School and was described by friends and teachers as a beautiful young woman with a sharp mind.

Patricia McCullough had been seeing Carr for several months and often visited him in Carter's Halstead Avenue apartment, according to friends.

Terry Weeks, Tyri Carr's mother, said she never met Carter but was glad someone had been arrested in her son's death. ``Hopefully, he won't be able to do this to anybody ever again,'' Weeks said. ILLUSTRATION: Photos

Patricia McCullough

Ronald Carter

KEYWORDS: MURDER SHOOTING by CNB