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

DATE: Monday, January 15, 1996               TAG: 9601150037
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: METRO BRIEFS 
DATELINE: HAMPTON                            LENGTH: Short :   22 lines

SMITHFIELD MAN KILLED

Police arrested a Hampton man Sunday in the shooting death of 19-year-old Roderick Jerome Newby of Smithfield.

Police said Newby was found lying in a parking lot in the 1800 block of W. Mercury Blvd. about 1:05 a.m. Sunday.

He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, believed to have been fired from a semiautomatic handgun.

Police arrested Berace R. Bennett Jr., 19, in connection with the shooting.

KEYWORDS: ARREST SHOOTING MURDER by CNB