THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 5, 1995 TAG: 9507050035
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY BILL SIZEMORE, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
A routine traffic stop by a rookie state trooper in Chesapeake on Tuesday resulted in the arrest of a man wanted in a Norfolk murder.
Jamel Andre Lee, 21, was charged with killing Anthony W. Carr, 25. Carr was fatally shot on June 22, 1993.
Lee also is charged with using a firearm in the commission of a felony and shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Trooper Philip King stopped Lee about 9:30 a.m. after clocking his 1989 Hyundai at 77 mph in a 55 mph zone. Lee was headed east on Interstate 64 just past the High Rise Bridge in Chesapeake.
Lee offered no resistance and was cooperative when told he would be charged with reckless driving, King said in an interview.
``He was very calm, very relaxed,'' King said. ``He said he was on his way home from work, and he was tired. He said, `Just give me the ticket so I can get home and get to bed.'
``That piqued my interest. He was just too calm to be getting a reckless-driving ticket.''
King ran a check on Lee's driver's license and found that he was wanted for murder. The trooper took him to the Chesapeake jail and turned him over to Norfolk police.
King, 32, a former Hampton police officer, is an April graduate of the State Police Academy.
Carr was shot in the back of the head when several men fired numerous shots into his home in the 1300 block of Mapole Ave. Police at the time attributed the shooting to a domestic dispute. Carr died the next day in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
He left a wife, four children and two stepchildren.
At the time of the slaying, police listed Lee's last known address as the 1400 block of Horn St. in Portsmouth.
KEYWORDS: ARREST MURDER SHOOTING by CNB