The Virginian-Pilot 
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, January 3, 1996             TAG: 9601030461
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS                       LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

IN NEWPORT NEWS, 27TH SLAYING VICTIM WAS STABBED

The medical examiner's office in Norfolk determined Tuesday that the city's 27th and final homicide victim of 1995 died from a single stab wound to the chest.

The body of Oscar White, 35, of 28th Street, was found by police at 8:21 a.m. Sunday in an apartment on 28th Street.

Later Sunday, police charged James B. Butts, 52, of 28th Street with murder.

White's death eclipsed by one the murder total of 1994, when 26 people were killed in Newport News, said Bobby Kipper, spokesman for the Newport News Police Department.

KEYWORDS: MURDER STABBING ARREST by CNB