DATE: Saturday, July 12, 1997               TAG: 9707120330

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 

DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE                        LENGTH:   26 lines

THIRD SUSPECT IN MURDER CASE, AN 18-YEAR-OLD, STILL AT LARGE

Police are still looking for a man suspected of murdering 29-year-old Mark Pickrel, who was shot to death last month.

Police have arrested two brothers, ages 15 and 16, in Pickrel's murder. A third suspect - Richard Marron, an 18-year-old brother of the juveniles - is at large.

``At this time we don't know where he is,'' Detective Dick Black said Friday.

Pickrel managed Cinemark Movies 10 and was on the board of directors of the Youth Crisis Network, an agency that works with families and youths. On the day of his murder, police searched his apartment for evidence of child pornography, according to a search warrant affidavit from Chesapeake police.

A Virginian-Pilot story published on July 3 incorrectly said that an upstairs neighbor of Pickrel saw two young boys carrying what looked like a human body away from Pickrel's apartment on the morning he was killed.

That report was based on the police search warrant affidavit. The warrant was incorrect, Black said. He said that another neighbor, who does not live in the upstairs apartment, contacted police.

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