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

DATE: Tuesday, September 3, 1996            TAG: 9609030123
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                    LENGTH:   23 lines

SHOTS FIRED AT OFFICER

Police early Sunday arrested a 20-year-old man they say fired several shots at an officer a day earlier.

Police said the suspect, Robert A. Witt of the 900 block of Aspen Drive, is a felon who isn't allowed to have a gun. He was charged with trying to shoot officer Stan Reed while Reed was in a parking lot checking out a suspicious car around 10:15 p.m. Saturday.

Reed was talking with the teen-age driver of a car parked at Brandon Middle School when someone fired shots at Reed from behind a privacy fence in a nearby yard.

Police spokesman Mike Carey said the suspect fired at the officer ``for no apparent reason.''

Reed, a 42-year-old Fourth Precinct officer, wasn't hurt.

Carey said investigators found the suspect after interviewing residents living around the school. Witt is being held without bond in the city jail.

KEYWORDS: ASSAULT ARREST by CNB