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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991                   TAG: 9104110514
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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MAN SHOT IN THIGH IN ROADSIDE INCIDENT

A 35-year-old Roanoke man was in stable condition after being shot in the thigh early Wednesday on Hershberger Road, Roanoke authorities said.

Richard Earl Shaver of the 5000 block of Morwanda Street Northwest told police he and another man were eastbound on Hershberger Road just after midnight when a blue compact car pulled into their path.

When the car pulled off near Cove Road, Shaver and a friend riding with him pulled in behind it, police said.

Shaver said a man jumped out of the blue car and fired two shots from a handgun, hitting him once in the left thigh.

Police found two casings from a 9mm automatic weapon on the ground. The blue car has not been located.

by CNB