THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, March 21, 1995 TAG: 9503210269
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
A Pasquotank County man accused of killing his girlfriend and wounding her step-grandfather March 8 was indicted Monday in Pasquotank County Superior Court.
Richard S. ``Ricky'' Hogarth, 30, of West Main Street Extended, was formally charged with first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious bodily injury, Pasquotank County Sheriff Randy Cartwright said.
Hogarth is being held without bond in Norfolk on firearms and robbery charges and is scheduled for arraignment there in early April. Cartwright said Hogarth will face the North Carolina murder and assault charges after his cases are heard in Virginia.
Hogarth's girlfriend, 24-year-old Tracy Dawn Crafton of Camden County, was shot to death in the parking lot of the Zoom-In convenience store on U.S. Route 17. Her step-grandfather, who had come with her grandmother to pick her up, is recovering from several gunshot wounds.
Crafton had told officials two days earlier that Hogarth had abused her. After the shootings, Hogarth led officials on a five-day interstate hunt before he was captured in Virginia Beach on March 13.
KEYWORDS: SHOOTING MURDER ASSAULT INJURIES
ARREST INDICTMENT by CNB