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

DATE: Sunday, June 9, 1996                  TAG: 9606090134
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   18 lines

SUSPECT SURRENDERS

A man wanted in the stabbing death of a 14-year-old boy on Thursday surrendered to police on Sunday.

Keith ``Shabazz'' Tharpe, 36, of Sacramento, Calif., turned himself in at the Police Operation Center on Virginia Beach Blvd. at 4:20 p.m.

Tharpe was charged with first-degree murder.

Derrick Joseph King was killed at his home in the 400 block of W. 28th St. in Park Place.

King was stabbed during a dispute, police said.

The dispute remains unclear.

KEYWORDS: MURDER STABBING ARREST by CNB