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

DATE: Tuesday, August 6, 1996               TAG: 9608060529
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   17 lines

SHOOTING VICTIM

North Carolina authorities are conducting autopsies on the bodies of two men, one from Norfolk, found shot to death in a mall parking lot.

Tyrone Demetrious Sneed, 23, of Wilmington, and Ronald Gardner, 22, of Norfolk were found in a Chevrolet Cavalier at Independence Mall in Wilmington, N.C., about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Wilmington police Sgt. Robert Clatty said.

The men were shot in the head, Clatty said.

``I think we're pretty well convinced that this was a homicide, a double homicide,'' he said.

KEYWORDS: MURDER by CNB