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

DATE: SUNDAY, April 22, 1990                   TAG: 9004220080
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Medium

8-YEAR-OLD VICTIM STABBED

Police Chief Marty M. Tapscott said Friday that the autopsy report on Basil Abdul Faruq would not be released until "critical interviews" were completed.

Basil and his 7-year-old brother Jamal were reported missing from their home on Monday. Basil's fully clothed body was found Thursday. Jamal is still missing.

Tapscott said police have no suspects in the case. He said investigators have not placed a "special focus" on family members.

"No one has been eliminated," Tapscott said. "Everything remains a possibility at this point."

Quoting unnamed sources, the newspaper reported that police searched the home of the boys' father, Everett Abdul Faruq, at 3 a.m. Friday.

When asked about the search Saturday, Faruq said, "I don't want to be talking about it right now. . . . You'll have to ask them about that."

Faruq said police have not told him his son had been stabbed to death.

The affidavit requesting the search warrant, filed in Henrico Circuit Court, remains sealed by court order.

Police said they have exhausted their search for Jamal at the Shoosmith Brothers Inc. landfill where his brother's body was found.

The Richmond News Leader reported that police believe Basil's body was picked up unknowingly along with a load of trash from a transfer station or large receptacle at one of three locations in north Richmond or Henrico.

Sources told the newspaper that authorities believe the boy had been dead more than 48 hours when his body was found.

The boys last were seen Monday outside the apartment they lived in with their mother, Tambra Ellis.

Tapscott said the FBI and state police have joined Richmond and Chesterfield police in the investigation.