
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 28, 1990                   TAG: 9003280551
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B8   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: MARION                                LENGTH: Short

SUSPECTS IN SLAYINGS FACES ANOTHER CHARGE

A Smyth County grand jury indicted a rape and murder suspect Tuesday on a charge of trying to escape from jail March 17.

Michael McGay Reeves also was indicted on charges of injuring jailer Jan A. Blevins and with destroying a watch belonging to Blevins. The jailer was not seriously injured.

Reeves, 27, was arrested Oct. 19 and has been charged with the Oct. 13 kidnapping, rape, robbery and attempted murder of a woman in Smyth County who sustained serious stabbing injuries. He also is charged in a knifepoint rape Oct. 17 of a woman in Bristol, Tenn., and another in Knoxville, Tenn.

He also was charged Nov. 28 with first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting of a woman in Craven County, N.C.

Authorities have been investigating to see if Reeves could be involved in two Smyth County murders. - Southwest bureau

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