THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, August 23, 1995 TAG: 9508230477
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B9 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Metro Briefs
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the capital murder of two teenagers in April 1994.
Circuit Judge Jerome James accepted the plea agreement of Ronald M. Carter and found him guilty of two counts of capital murder, two counts of robbery and four counts of use of a firearm. In addition, James found Carter guilty of an unrelated wounding that occurred in February 1994.
Carter was sentenced to two life terms plus 73 years. He faced the death penalty for the capital murder charges.
Carter was charged with the murder and robbery on April 26, 1994, of 15-year-old Patricia McCullough and her boyfriend Tyri A. Carr, 18. At one point, Carter and Carr had been roommates in an apartment in the 1500 block of Halstad Ave. Patricia McCullough had been seeing Carr for several months and often visited him at the Halstead Avenue apartment, according to friends.
The bodies of the two teens were found in the apartment three days after the murders, police said. Carter was arrested in Washington about two months later.
The February 1994 wounding occured while Carter was still a juvenile. He was charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm for the Feb. 25, 1994, shooting of Timothy Vines.
McCullough and Carr were killed five days after Carter turned 18.
KEYWORDS: CAPITAL MURDER GUILTY PLEA by CNB