The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, November 20, 1995              TAG: 9511200102
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Brief 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Short :   24 lines

MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED

A New York man was arrested Saturday and charged with murder and using a firearm in the March death of a Norfolk man.

Police said Christopher Griffiths, 19, was arrested at The Clubhouse Bar off Newtown Road Saturday evening and charged with the drug-related murder of 29-year-old Remus Johnson.

Johnson was found dead of a gunshot wound in a home that had been set afire in the 900 block of Sutton St. on March 31.

Griffiths, a Brooklyn native, is being held without bond in the Norfolk City Jail.

KEYWORDS: MURDER SHOOTING ARREST by CNB