DATE: Tuesday, August 19, 1997              TAG: 9708190288

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COURTS & CRIME

NORFOLK

Man killed, woman injured by gunfire; 2nd woman charged

A double shooting Monday afternoon in the Huntersville area left a 30-year-old Chesapeake man dead and a 24-year-old Norfolk woman injured, police said.

By Monday evening, police had arrested a woman and charged her with the murder of Stanley Wilson, 30, of the 1300 block of Drayton Road in Chesapeake. Injured in the shooting was Regina Daggs of the 800 block of Lexington Ave., where the shooting occurred.

The shooting was reported to police about 4:15 p.m., said police spokesman Larry Hill. The victims were taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Daggs was treated and released, but Wilson died just after 8 p.m., Hill said.

Police arrested and charged a woman whom they identified as Angela Perez, 30, with Wilson's murder. She also was charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Hill said police did not have an address for Perez but believed she lives in Norfolk.

She is scheduled to be arraigned in Norfolk General District Court this morning.

Man must pay $104,514 for Social Security fraud

A retired shipyard mechanic who cashed his dead brother's Social Security checks for 31 years must repay $104,514, a court has ordered.

The retiree, Arthur Sheriff, is now 89 years old, suffers severely from Alzheimer's disease and lives in a small house near Norview High School. The government sued him in June, saying he fraudulently obtained $120,085 from 1964 to 1995. The checks averaged $323 a month but were more than $500 a month in later years.

Sheriff was not charged criminally, but the government did file a civil lawsuit against him. By law, the government cannot recover payments that are more than 10 years old. The lawsuit sought a $1 million civil penalty, plus $156,456 in repayments - triple the $52,000 that Sheriff obtained over the past 10 years.

Sheriff did not reply to the lawsuit, so the court entered a default judgment against him on Aug. 12 for double the money that he fraudulently obtained in the last 10 years.

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