THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 22, 1996 TAG: 9606220254
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY CINDY CLAYTON, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: 48 lines
A 19-year-old carjacking suspect who was shot by police Thursday night died late Friday at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, police said.
The suspect, identified by police as Antuan D. Hunt, a deserter from the Navy dock landing ship Carter Hall, was shot once in the head by a police officer at Azalea Garden Road and Norview Avenue, near the airport.
It was the sixth time this year that police in South Hampton Roads have fatally shot a suspect.
The incident began about 10 p.m. Thursday when police were called to the 9600 block of 12th Bay St. in East Ocean View for a domestic disturbance. The suspect had burst into an apartment there and had argued with five people, said police spokesman Larry Hill.
Hill said that the suspect pulled out a gun and began firing at the five as they ran from the apartment. Hill said the suspect was apparently enraged about a Naval Criminal Investigative Service inquiry implicating him in the theft of two treasury checks from his command. No further details about the inquiry were available.
Injured in the gunfire was Marco Montemayor, 24, also stationed aboard the Carter Hall. Montemayor was shot in the foot. Cheri L. Borders, 25, jumped out a window and broke her arm, Hill said. Both were taken to a hospital, then released.
After the shooting, the suspect ran from the apartment and into a parking lot, where another man, Marcus Siler, 30, of East Ocean View, had just pulled up in his BMW. Police said the suspect forced Siler at gunpoint to drive toward Norview Avenue, then Azalea Garden Road.
The two were spotted by a security officer who was listening to police chatter on a scanner in his car nearby when he heard the description of the BMW, saw the car and called 911.
About the same time, the police officer spotted the car and pulled it over.
At that point, Hill said, the suspect threatened Siler's life by putting the barrel of his handgun into Siler's mouth. The suspect then pulled the gun away from Siler and pointed it at the officer, Hill said. The officer fired through the back window of the BMW, striking the suspect in the head, Hill said.
Police did not release the officer's name Friday.
Siler, of the 3300 block of East Ocean View Ave., was not injured. A police investigation is continuing. Hill said the case would be forwarded to the Commonwealth Attorney's Office for review.
KEYWORDS: CARJACKING SHOOTING FATALITY by CNB