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

DATE: FRIDAY, June 15, 1990                   TAG: 9006150527
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: RON BROWN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

BEDFORD MAN CHARGED IN ROBBERY SERIES

A Bedford County man was charged Wednesday in a series of armed robberies in Roanoke, including one in which a convenience-store clerk was shot.

Samuel Lee Whorley, 22, of Route 1, Goodview, is accused of shooting Eddie Thomas Pritchard, a cashier at the Hop-In store at 931 Gus Nicks Blvd., on April 13.

Police said a man entered the store about 1:30 a.m., demanded money and shot several times. One of the bullets struck Pritchard in the upper left side. Pritchard's watch and $230 in cash were taken.

Whorley faces charges of malicious wounding, armed robbery and use of a firearm in the incident.

He also was charged Wednesday with an April 17 armed robbery of $271 from a clerk at the Amoco Food Mart at 3348 Orange Ave.

He faces identical charges in connection with a robbery of the Pizza Inn at 3603 Franklin Road on New Year's Day. William A. Taylor had been charged earlier in connection with that robbery.

by CNB