DATE: Saturday, April 5, 1997               TAG: 9704050228

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B8   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Briefs 

SOURCE: From Staff reports 

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CRIMES & COURTS [BRIEFS]

Man who killed boy

and hid his body gets life in prison

A Circuit Court judge on Friday sentenced Louis Alberto Pino to life in prison for the murder of a 16-year-old Norfolk boy who was missing for two months before his body was found in Pino's Willoughby Spit apartment.

Judge William F. Rutherford followed a jury's recommendation and gave Pino the maximum sentence. The jury convicted Pino, 19, in February of murdering Adam Wese.

Wese disappeared on Jan. 18, 1996. His body was found two months later in a cardboard box inside Pino's apartment. Pino at first confessed to strangling and suffocating Wese but later changed his story and said Wese hanged himself.

Wese's parents testified Friday about the agony their son's murder has caused them.

Judge Rutherford, when imposing the sentence, called Pino ``cold-blooded'' and ``animalistic.'' Pino apologized for what he had done but maintained that Wese's death was a suicide.

Passer-by is shot after

man and woman argue

A passer-by was shot Friday afternoon after a dispute between a man and a woman turned violent, police said. The woman also was hurt.

The incident occurred at 2:19 p.m. in the 3000 block of Somme Ave. in the Lafayette area.

Police said Tracy L. Fobbs, 24, of the 3100 block of Vimy Ridge Ave. was involved in an argument with an unidentified man. The man assaulted her and then turned to leave, police said.

He then turned back, police said, and opened fire with a handgun. A bullet struck Shawn Martin, 19, of the 3100 block of Dunkirk Ave.

Police said Martin was ``just passing by'' and had not been involved in the confrontation.

Martin was listed in stable condition Friday night at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Fobbs was treated at DePaul Medical Center and released. KEYWORDS: MURDER SENTENCING SHOOTING BYSTANDER

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