Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, May 17, 1990                   TAG: 9005170618
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Laurence Hammack
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

WOMAN DIES OF STABBING IN NORTHWEST

Police were called to a two-story, white frame house on the 1800 block of Hanover Avenue at about 8:30 a.m. today to investigate a report of a stabbing.

The woman, whom authorities declined to identify immediately after the incident, was alive when police arrived.

Paramedics worked to save her as she was carried in a stretcher down the front steps of the house, but the woman was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Police were searching for a suspect who apparently fled the house. Authorities declined to elaborate, except to say that the man was "known to the woman" who was killed.

As police arrived, a small crowd gathered outside the house, directly across the street from the Glorious Church of God in Christ.

A neighbor, who asked that she not be identified, said she had heard no signs of a dispute from her nearby home shortly before noticing that police had arrived.